India, May 6 -- Romania's far-Right candidate George Simion took a comfortable lead in Sunday's first round of presidential elections, near-final results for the rerun of last year's annulled ballot showed. The closely watched rerun could potentially herald a foreign policy shift in the EU country of 19 million, which has become a key pillar of Nato since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. With 99% of ballots counted, nationalist AUR party leader Simion was leading with 40.5% of the vote. He will face off against pro-EU Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan in the May 18 run-off. P15
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