Unexpected hard-right candidate surges in Romania presidential vote

Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu has come from nowhere to lead Romania’s presidential first round ahead of center-left Premier Marcel Ciolacu and pro-Western mayor Elena Lasconi in first round. The pro-Russia supporter who has sympathies with Romania’s Nazi-allied Legionnaires of the 1930s  and 1940s is on track to make it to the final round of presidential elections, … Continuă lectura Unexpected hard-right candidate surges in Romania presidential vote