Romania set for right-wing run-off after PM eliminated

Never in our 34 years of democracy have we seen such a surge compared to surveys,

political commentator Radu Magdin told the Reuters news agency

We are strong and brave, many of us voted, even more will do so in the second round,

Georgescu said on Sunday evening

Based on Georgescu’s stance towards Ukraine and the discrepancy between opinion surveys and the actual result, we cannot rule (that) out,

said Sergiu Miscoiu, a political science professor at Babes-Bolyai University

For the unjust, for the humiliated, for those who feel they do not matter and actually matter the most … the vote is a prayer for the nation.”

After casting his ballot on Sunday, Georgescu said in a post on Facebook

The mainstream political parties have lost the connection with regular Romanians,

he said

It will be a tight run-off, with the Social Democrat leader more vulnerable to negative campaigning due to him being an incumbent PM,

Magdin said

Tonight the Romanian people shouted ‘peace’ and they were very loud,

Georgescu told supporters Sunday evening

Since the [1989] revolution, we didn’t have a really good president,

she said

Romania has a huge chance to become a developed economy in the next 10 years, where honest work is fairly rewarded and people have the security of a better life,

he said

We are at a point where Romania can easily divert or slip towards a populist regime because [voter] dissatisfaction is pretty large among a lot of people from all social strata,

Cristian Andrei, a political consultant, told The Associated Press news agency

I would like that, in the next five to 10 years, for Romanians to be really proud to be Romanians, to promote Romanian culture, Romanian products,

he said in the capital, Bucharest

Romanian democracy is in danger for the first time since the fall of communism in 1989,

the political analyst Cristian Pirvulescu told AFP

We are sort of a Trumpist party in this new wave of patriotic political parties in Europe,

Simion said

I think I bring a lot of competence and experience and connections in this complicated world,

he said

The outcome is still very difficult to predict due to the high concentration of candidates and the splitting of the centre-right vote,

said Sergiu Miscoiu, a political science professor at Babes-Bolyai University

Marcel Ciolacuprime Minister

Romania has been for Ukraine unconditionally and it will remain so,

Ciolacu told television channel Antena3

We take as a model the right-wing government formed in Italy,

Simion told foreign media earlier this week

He seems to draw from young people and old people alike,

John Florescu, executive producer of the Bucharest-based Chainsaw Films and onetime producer for Sir David Frost, told Newsmax