Update: Interested in live coverage of the elections, with constant updates and insights? Check out my dedicated article here: 2025 Romanian Presidential Elections. George Simion’s first attempt at the Romanian presidency in 2024 didn’t end well: he placed 4th, with … Read more
UPDATE: For the coverage & results of the final round of the 2025 Presidential Elections, read my article here. Far-right candidate George Simion decisively won the first round of Romania’s Presidential elections held in May 2025. The ultra-nationalist and Eurosceptic … Read more
Elena Lasconi, one of Romania’s candidates for the Presidency in the May 2025 elections, seems to be the big loser here. She initially qualified for the second round of the now-annulled Presidential Elections in 2024, facing Calin Georgescu, who was … Read more
Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) has announced a unanimous decision to annul the first round of the presidential elections held on November 24. IMPORTANT: Check the UPDATES at the bottom of the article for the latest news and evolutions in this … Read more
FINAL UPDATE: The political crisis deepens. The CCR decided to annul the elections and ordered them to be restarted from scratch. Get all the details here. Romania is in chaos following dramatic developments in the wake of the first round … Read more
Romania’s Parliamentary elections on December 1st, 2024 are just over, breaking some records, keeping Romania on its pro-European path (but barely) and leaving the doors open for both political crisis and surprise alliances. With Romania being in an unprecedented political … Read more
UPDATE: The first round of the presidential elections has now been annulled! Read about this unprecedented political crisis here. To say that the results of the presidential elections in Romania were shocking would be putting it mildly. The results of … Read more
Călin Georgescu is the surprising winner of the first round of Romania’s presidential elections held on November 24th, 2024. Emerging seemingly out of nowhere, Călin Georgescu shocked political parties, analysts, and a large portion of Romania’s population by achieving an … Read more
When it rains, it pours, they say. And, right now, this is pretty accurate for how things stand in Romania – with the mention that literal rain is replaced by an ever-lasting drought. This brings plenty of wildfires throughout the … Read more
Romania reached peak population in the early 1990s, with a bit over 23 million people living in the country. However, the latest census from 2021 reveals a dramatic drop, with just over 19 million Romanians remaining. You can read dig … Read more