All of Europe — not to mention quite a few observers in the U.S. — seemed to be gasping in unison Monday morning with the final results of the election for president of Romania.
In results that were completely unexpected, Calin Georgescu, 62 and a political unknown without a party behind him, placed first in the initial balloting with 22.94% of the vote. He was followed by Elena Lasconi, the former TV newscaster and “reformist” mayor of the town of Campulung who is the leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, with 19.18%.
“Who is Calin Georgescu?” was the immediate question in and outside Romania. Prior to the voting, opinion was unanimous that the runoff would include Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the Social Democratic Party, or PSD, and George Simion, who is the leader of the nationalist and populist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, and is known as “the Romanian Donald Trump.”
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