The talks were aimed at ensuring that a pro-European candidate would make it through to the second round of the election.

Romania’s ruling coalition agreed on Wednesday to rerun a two-round presidential election on 4 May and 18 May and stuck to an original plan to endorse a single candidate. Elena Lasconi, leader ...

Ultranationalist candidate Călin Georgescu leads in voters’ preferences, while Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan is placed second, ...

Calin Georgescu called Ukraine an ‘invented state,’ suggesting Romania should take back ethnic Romanian areas. The rhetoric ...

Ultranationalist independent candidate Calin Georgescu would mark a clear win in the first round of the presidential elections (38%) but would not significantly improve his score in the second round ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --Romania's Constitutional Court Friday canceled the presidential run-off election between far-right candidate Calin Georgescu and centrist Elena Lasconi. The court cited a Russian ...

Maia Sandu is the person who did not keep quiet and did not stand aside in a difficult moment for Romania, said Save Romania Union (USR) leader Elena Lasconi on Tuesday, in a message conveyed on the ...

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday rejected Romanian far-right presidential candidate Călin Georgescu’s petition ...

Center-right opposition leader Elena Lasconi came second to him, garnering 18.1% of the vote, the country’s Center for Urban and Regional Sociology, CURS, reported after polling stations closed ...

In Sunday's run-off, he will face centrist Elena Lasconi. Fears are rife that if Georgescu won, the country would join the EU's far-right bloc and undermine European unity against Russia ...

ECHR says it cannot undo the Romanian Constitutional Court’s decision to annul November’s presidential elections, in which right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu had taken a surprise lead, over ...

Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, responded to statements made by far-right, pro-Russian Romanian presidential ...