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USA TodaySep 05, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Călin Georgescu will face off former TV anchor Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union (USR) in an surprising runoff matchup, the first in its post-communist era in which neither of the two largest parties will have a candidate.Independent presidential candidate Călin Georgescu will face off former TV anchor Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union (USR) in a surprising runoff matchup — the first in its post-communist era in which neither of the two largest parties will have a candidate.
Georgescu took the lead in the first round with 23% of the vote, and Lasconi defeated incumbent prime minister and pre-ballot front-runner, Marcel Cialocu of the Social Democrats, by a few thousands votes, 19.17% to 19.15%.
According to Romania's Central Election Bureau, voter turnout in the Sunday election was at 52.5% — or about 9.4M people. The runoff election is scheduled for Dec. 8.
Romanians are fed up with bureaucrats in Bucharest dragging their country into the war in Ukraine, which only serves the interestinterests of NATO, the EU, and the US military-industrial complex. That's precisely why mainstream candidates failed to make it into the runoff and why Georgescu will win the presidency.
Don't take for granted that those who voted for Georgescu did so because they wantwanted Romania to stop supporting Ukraine. Actually,His his support comes from people dissatisfied with mainstream parties who chose him because he ran as an independent candidate. There's no reason to panic, as Lasconi will defeat Georgescu in the runoff.