Who is Calin Georgescu, Romanian right-wing candidate leading the election?
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The judo-loving TikTok campaigner won the most votes in the first round of the presidential election. Here’s why this matters.
An independent candidate who until two years ago was part of Romania’s main far-right party has emerged as the surprising winner of the first round of the Eastern European nation’s presidential election on Sunday.
Calin Georgescu will now head into a run-off against the second-placed candidate in the election.
But who is Georgescu, how did he gain votes and what is next for Romania?
In all, 52.4 percent of eligible voters in Romania, or 9.4 million voters cast their ballot, according to the Central Electoral Bureau.
After 98 percent of the ballots were counted, Georgescu defied opinion polls and emerged in first place with 23 percent of the votes, according to partial election results.
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