Romania is poised for a pivotal moment as it prepares for a two-round presidential election on 4 and 18 May. This decision ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Three candidates have emerged as the main players ahead of the presidential rerun scheduled for ...

By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest A far-right candidate, either George Simion or Anamaria Gavrila, will win the first round of Romania’s May presidential election, but either would lose in the second round ...

Romania’s electoral body has rejected the candidacy of controversial far-right politician Diana Sosoaca in the presidential ...

I noted at the time that an impending runoff would test that proposition (again) almost literally: Georgescu was set to face off against Elena Lasconi, a moderate who had worked as a war correspondent ...

Riot police responded with tear gas to disperse the crowds. Elena Lasconi, leader of the center-right Union Save Romania party and Georgescu’s expected opponent in the canceled runoff last year, urged ...

The candidate of the reformist party USR, Elena Lasconi, would get only 7%, while the leader of the far-right party SOS Romania, Diana Sosoaca, would not get more than 3%. The survey, conducted ...

S.O.S., and POT have appealed to the CCR against laws enabling the Romanian Army “to shoot down Russian drones that have been violating our airspace for months,” USR leader Elena Lasconi wrote ...

The leader of the reformist opposition party USR, Elena Lasconi, who already announced her candidacy for the May presidential elections after winning second place in the annulled ballot last ...