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Romania’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu will not become president. Archive image.
1 / 2Photo: Vadim Ghirda/AP/TT
Romania’s incumbent prime minister, the pro-European social democrat Marcel Ciolacu, is out of the country’s presidential election, despite being tipped as the winner.
After the first round of elections, it instead looks like the election will be between the pro-Russian far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and Elena Lasconi, mayor of the city of Campulung in central Romania.
Lasconi represents a center-right party and appears to have passed Ciolacu in the first round.
About 99 percent of the votes have been counted. Georgescu gets around 23 percent and Lasconi just below. Incumbent Prime Minister Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu only gets about 19 percent of the vote.
The current president, conservative Klaus Iohannis, has held the post since 2014.