đŸ”” Romania Election Results

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Citizen Frank
May 18, 2025

Good morning. It’s Sunday, May 18.

 

Pro-EU NicuƟor Dan was on course to become Romania’s president on Sunday, according to exit polls, leading a run-off against an Eurosceptic Simion who had topped the first round.

Dan, a 55-year-old mayor of the capital Bucharest, was set to win with more than 54 per cent of the vote compared with around 45 per cent for George Simion, the leader of the right-wing AUR party, according to pollsters CURS and Avangarde.

“Elections are not about politicians, they are about communities. And the community that won today wants profound changes,” Dan said to cheering crowds. He acknowledged the anger of the “community who lost”, promising reforms to fight corruption and improve the rule of law.

Liberal Warsaw Mayor RafaƂ Trzaskowski narrowly won the first round of Poland’s presidential election on Sunday against his right-wing rival Karol Nawrocki, setting the two up for a nail-biting campaign for the second round on June 1.

Trzaskowski, part of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party, won 30.8 percent of the vote while Nawrocki, supported by the populist right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, took 29.1 percent, according to an exit poll by Ipsos released on Sunday evening after voting ended.

The projections are not official results, which will start coming in from Poland’s election authority in the next hours.

Amid ongoing efforts to reset the relationship between Washington and Kiev, US Vice President JD Vance met with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and his top aides in Rome on Sunday.

Crucially, this is the first time Zelensky and Vance have met since their blow-up in the White House in February. The pointed exchange had even led to Trump very briefly suspending weapons deliveries and intelligence-sharing with Ukraine.

But both of them this weekend were in Rome for the newly installed Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration mass at the Vatican. Zelensky had also met with the Pope after the Sunday service at St. Peter’s.

The House Budget Committee will reconvene over the weekend to vote again on approving the GOP’s party-line tax and spending package, after conservatives tanked the same vote Friday morning.

The panel is officially scheduled to gavel back in at 10 p.m. on Sunday, with negotiations expected in the meantime among GOP leadership, conservative holdouts and the White House. As a condition of their support, fiscal hawks are demanding major revisions to the more than 1,100-page measure, including imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients to kick in sooner than 2029.

Clinching approval of the megabill in the Budget Committee is essential for staying on schedule to tee up a floor vote on the package next week — and meet the House GOP leadership’s goal of passing the legislation central to President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda in time for Memorial Day recess.

The U.S. embassy in Libya denied on Sunday a report that the U.S. government was working on a plan to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya.

On Thurdsay, NBC News said the Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate as many as one million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya.

NBC News cited five people with knowledge of the matter, including two people with direct knowledge and a former U.S. official.

An independent filmmaker who premiered her film at Sundance is alleging that a recent Nike advertisement directed by Malia Obama, 26, is ‘shockingly similar’ to her work.

Natalie Jasmine Harris, 27, shared stills from her film, Grace, alongside shots from Malia’s Nike commercial featuring A’ja Wilson that depicted similar images of black girls playing the game pat-a-cake on a stoop.

‘Been sitting with this for a while. My Sundance short film Grace (shot brilliantly by Tehillah de Castro) was made with deep love and care,’ Natalie wrote in the caption.

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