Nationalist candidate George Simion won the first round of Romania’s presidential election with some 40% of the vote, according to the preliminary results on Sunday. With 97.2% of votes counted, the race for second place — which will take the candidate to the runoff to face off against Simion in two weeks' time — between two pro-West candidates,

The nationalist chief vociferously supports Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni — and he leads the presidential race ahead of May 18’s critical second round.

Incomplete electoral data indicates that hard-right nationalist George Simion is set to secure a decisive win in the first round of Romania’s presidential election redo, months after last year’s annul