Romanians throw voting cards in the tense presidential flow Election news

The outcome of the elections can reshape the direction of the pro -European Union state and NATO on the border with the war -torn Ukraine.

Romans began to throw voting cards in tense presidential elections Surface This stimulates a supportive nationalist of Trump, opposing Ukraine’s military aid against the Federation of Europe.

Opinion polls were opened on Sunday at 7 am local time (04:00 GMT) and will be closed at 9 pm (18:00 GMT) in the second round of the elections that will affect the geopolitical trend of Romania.

Severe right -wing nationalities, George Simon, 38, who opposes military aid to neighboring Ukraine and the European Union leadership, was taking the first round of the presidential elections, which led to the collapse of a coalition government in support of the West. This led to large capital flows.

Romania Supreme Court He canceled the results of the first round In December due to the accusations of Russian intervention. The court is also not eligible for national candidate Kaleyen Georgko, which led to a Simon road, one of the fans who have self -declared to the President of the United States Donald Trump.

The mayor of Bucharest Nikosor Dan, 55, who pledged to intersect corruption and is strongly supportive of the European Union and NATO, competes with Simon. He said that Romania’s support for Ukraine is vital to its security against the increasing Russian threat.

On Friday, an opinion poll suggested that Dan was a little advanced to Simon for the first time since the first round in a narrow race that depends on the great turnout and the Roman diaspora.

“The battle between nationalism and centralization”

Sonia Galigo from the capital, from the capital, Bucharest, said that these elections were presented as a battle between nationalism and centralism.

She said: “The truth is that Romania, a member of the European Union and NATO, shares within the limits with the war -torn Ukraine, which is the longest among the European Union members. This makes it one of the most vulnerable within the bloc.”

Some analysts also warned of this online Misinformation It was collapsed again before Sunday.

“We have to look at what is happening online. There we have seen a lot of wrong information,” Elena Calleto, a political analyst, told Al -Jazeera.

“We have seen a lot of … unreliable coordinated behavior. We have seen a lot of Foreign intervention In our elections, “she said.

“The president supporting Europe”?

The president of the country has large powers, not the least responsible for the defense council that decides military aid. It will also be a supervision of foreign policy, with the authority to veto the European Union’s voices that require consensus.

Daniela Pleisa, 62, a general employee, told Agence France -Presse news agency in Bucharest on Friday that she wanted the president to “strengthen the interests of the country” and complain that “the demands of the European Union and the demands”.

Andre Nicololsco, 30, is working in the advertisement, that she wants to “just calm down” and “president of Europe”.

The gatherings of tens of thousands before the elections demanded that they preserve their pro -European position.

Other protests, which drew tens of thousands, protested the decision to cancel the vote last year and even a right -wing extremist candidate. Georgisco.

The Trump administration criticized this cancellation, and Simon said that the Prime Minister would have chosen Georgsco, who prefers nationalization and openness to Russia.

The vote in Romania comes on a day when Poland also voted in the first round of the presidential elections, and it is expected that the mayor of Warsaw, the European Union, will lead Rafal Tarsinski and conservative historian Carol Noruki.

The victory of SIMION and/or Trzaskowski would expand a group of European leaders who already include heads of Hungary and Slovakia, amid political transformation in Central Europe that can expand in the European Union.