Shocking turnaround, Dan defeats Simion in Romanian presidential election

It appeared to be a choice between East versus West in Romania’s presidential election last night.

In shocking fashion, the nation’s centrist candidate, Nicusor Dan defeated a right-wing nationalist, George Simion, after Dan picked up nearly a million votes in the final wing of voting, garnering 56 percent of the votes.

The victory marked a major turnaround in a tense election that many viewed as a geopolitical choice between the candidates following the cancellation of the previous cancelled election marred by allegations of Russian interference.

A top court’s decision to annul an election from six months ago sent Romania’s political landscape into a tailspin after the country’s other right-wing candidate topped the first round of polls.