“We have to focus on the first of December; we will continue our work, the most important thing is to have a strong representation in parliament,” said Hunor Kelemen, presidential candidate of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) on Sunday evening at the party’s results waiting event in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Romania), according to Hungary Today.
In a short press statement after the polls closed following the first round of the Romanian presidential election, the RMDSZ president said that they should wait for the votes to be counted because he is convinced that he has achieved a better result than the exit poll figures. He recalled that
According to exit polls published after the first round of voting closed on Sunday, Social Democrat (PSD) Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Elena Lasconi, president and candidate for head of state of the opposition Save Romania Union (USR), are likely to qualify for the second round of the presidential elections in Romania.
Based on both CURS and Avangarde-CIRA exit polls, the PSD president came first with 25 percent of the vote, while the USR candidate could get 18 percent of the domestic vote.
In third place – to everyone’s surprise – the exit polls put independent candidate Calin Georgescu, who was nominated as head of government by the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), that had just gained representation in the 2020 parliamentary elections and was considered extremist by the other parties.
AUR President George Simion, who most polls had predicted until the last minute would be Marcel Ciolacu’s opponent in the second round, was polling in fourth place with 14-15 percent of the vote, one percentage point ahead of Senate President Nicolae Ciuca, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), who was relegated to fifth place.
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