The result is a dramatic turnaround from the first round of voting a few weeks ago when Mr Simion was well ahead.

Pro-Western candidate Nicusor Dan has unexpectedly beaten hard-right populist George Simion in the Romanian election.

Mr Simion, 38, and his rival - a centrist who’s mayor of Bucharest - faced off in the second round of the contest.

According to the official tally, Mr Dan was leading by nearly nine percentage points with more than 98% of the votes counted.

They aren’t enough votes remaining for Mr Simion to make a comeback.

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    22·
    18 hours ago

    Until the next election in a EU country.

    Viktor Orban is not going to be around forever

    He’s up for reelection in April 2026, and he’s going to lose badly as it looks like now. Orange line is his party. And this summary is skewed most likely and overestimates him, as it takes his own polls into account, you can see that big outlier orange dot over everything on the right. In the current fucked up system, a lead like this is almost enough to rewrite the constitution.

    (Legend is a bit confusing, it’s TISZA getting ahead, not MSZP, luckily.)

    Hungary has hope now.

    Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2026_Hungarian_parliamentary_election

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      18 hours ago

      nothing is certain.

      Look at what happened in the last 12 months in Canada, and how the Conservatives went from unbeatable, a 25-35% lead, to ultimatley losing

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        13·
        18 hours ago

        You’re right, but I’ll take this over anything in the past 30 years. And it will get messy, Orbán will not leave peacefully. But he is making mistake after mistake. These polls don’t reflect taking the side of the losing Hungarophobic (no, really) Romanian Nazi presidential candidate Simion - TISZA leadership are literally walking 300km to Oradea from Budapest in a unifying gesture as we speak. And a lot of other things that have happened, like the recent scandal when it was revealed they were / are still trying to start an own invasion of Ukraine. Also Trump.

        The DK for example just imploded and are likely to disappear. MM has conceded the election in advance in favour of TISZA.

        That said, Orbán can and will change the election system in the coming year, and there is a lot of shit still coming. But something has broken in the system in Hungary in the past 6 months that can’t be rebuilt as it was.