{"id":4732,"date":"2025-04-24T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:59:35","slug":"far-right-candidate-george-simion-still-leads-polls-for-romanian-president-close-battle-for-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4732","title":{"rendered":"Far-right candidate George Simion still leads polls for Romanian president, close battle for second"},"content":{"rendered":"

The leader and presidential candidate of the far-right party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, continues to lead in the race for president, according to a public opinion poll conducted for HotNews<\/a> between April 17\u201322 by AtlasIntel.<\/p>\n

The data show that Simion lost a significant portion of what he had gained over the past month. At the same time, he is narrowing the gap with every opponent in the scenario of a presidential runoff, showing that the far-right leader can become the next Romanian president.<\/p>\n

According to the poll, George Simion, the candidate who claims to be the replacement for far-right pro-Russian politician Calin Georgescu<\/a> after the rejection of his candidacy, is credited with 31.9% of votes. This means that after increasing by 3% points from March during April 10\u201313, the AUR candidate has lost half of that gain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In second place is the PSD-PNL-UDMR candidate, Crin Antonescu, credited with 22.6% of the votes, down two points from nine days ago, when he had 24.7%.<\/p>\n

Just 0.6% behind is independent candidate Nicu\u0219or Dan, the current mayor of Bucharest, at 22%, a slight increase from 21.2%. In fourth place is another independent, Victor Ponta, with 10.2%, up from 9.7%, while USR leader Elena Lasconi remains in fifth place with 5.5%, half a percentage point more than in the previous poll.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The AtlasIntel poll also outlines possible second-round scenarios. As before, George Simion would lose to all opponents except Victor Ponta. Still, Crin Antonescu\u2019s lead over George Simion has shrunk from 12.9% to 5%. Elena Lasconi\u2019s lead has narrowed from 3.5% to just 2%, and Nicu\u0219or Dan\u2019s advantage over Simion has gone from 3.2% to 3%.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a Nicu\u0219or Dan vs. Crin Antonescu runoff, the latter would receive 31% of the vote compared to 28% for the current mayor of Bucharest, while the share of respondents who say \u201cdon\u2019t know,\u201d \u201cwon\u2019t vote,\u201d or would cast a null vote is the highest among all scenarios, 41%.<\/p>\n

The survey comes as the main pro-European candidates, namely Crin Antonescu, Nicusor Dan, and Elena Lasconi, have argued their case for a \u201cpractical vote,\u201d saying that they have the best chance of beating George Simion in the runoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The AtlasIntel poll was conducted with a sample of 3,701 respondents using the random digital recruitment method (Atlas RDR).\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to an opinion poll<\/a> conducted by INSCOP Research in March, over 76% of Romanians do not agree with leaving the European Union, and 80% of respondents believe that Romania should not leave NATO.<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Inquam Photos | Sabin Cirstoveanu)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leader and presidential candidate of the far-right party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, continues to lead in the race for president, according to a public opinion poll conducted for HotNews between April 17\u201322 by AtlasIntel. The data show that Simion lost a significant portion of what he had gained over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}