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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Romanian run-off the most crucial on Europe’s ‘Super Sunday’ of elections

Adjacent posters of Romanian politicians Nicuşor Dan and George Simion
Nicuşor Dan, Bucharest’s mayor, trailed the EU-critical populist George Simion in the first-round presidential vote before Sunday’s run-off election. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters

Romanians are voting in a pivotal presidential run-off that could radically alter their country’s strategic alignment and economic prospects, as voters in Poland and Portugal also cast their ballots in a European electoral “super Sunday”.

The Romanian contest, the most consequential of the three, pits a brash, EU-critical, Trump-admiring populist against a centrist independent in a knife-edge vote that analysts have called most important in the country’s post-communist history.

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