00:00It was a tense night in Romania as the first round of presidential elections took place.
00:06Giorgio Simeone, the ultra-nationalist candidate, won by a landslide, gathering over 40% of the votes.
00:14It was when the exit polls came in that the actual tied battle for the second place was being fought
00:22between the government's coalition candidate, Crin Antonescu, and the independent candidate,
00:28Niku Shordan, who is also the mayor of Bucharest.
00:32It was hours later when the votes were being counted and when the results finally came in
00:38that we found out Niku Shordan is going on in the second round of elections on the 18th of May.
00:46Over 53% of Romanians voted in this first round of elections, both in Romania and across the globe.
00:53There are concerns that a vote for Simeone might mean isolating Romania.
00:59It remains to be seen what will happen in the next two weeks, what will people choose to do
01:05when they go out to vote, what will they vote for, whether European continuity or isolationism.
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