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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid, Jon Henley in Bucharest and Jakub Krupa in Warsaw

Runoffs, reruns and rightwingers: Europe’s electoral ‘super Sunday’ explained

A rally for Nicușor Dan in Bucharest
Supporters shine the lights of their mobile phones at a rally in Bucharest for Nicușor Dan, a Romanian presidential candidate. Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP

Millions of voters in Romania, Poland and Portugal are casting their ballots in an electoral “super Sunday” that will determine the course of their democracies at a time of heightened political, commercial and economic tensions.

In Romania, the far-right candidate is the frontrunner in a presidential runoff, while in a deeply polarised Poland’s first-round vote, a liberal, a conservative and a far-right candidate are vying to become president.

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