A little good news

“The headline election was Romania’s presidential vote, with liberal Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan coming out the winner ahead of nationalist George Simion.”

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“Poland was also holding a presidential election, and Polish TV’s exit poll indicated that Warsaw’s liberal Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski received 30.8%, while national-conservative historian Karol Nawrocki won 29.1% of the vote.”

“The pair will now head into the second round scheduled for 1 June.

“And Portugal held a general election, the third in three years, with an exit poll for TVI and CNN Portugal showing that the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) won between 29.1% and 35.1% of the vote.

The big change was the rise of the far-right Chega party which was predicted to almost match the vote share of the opposition Socialists.”

From a Polish colleague on the 1st round Polish election:

“He did much worse than predicted, so he has some uphill to climb in second round. The right + far right candidates together got almost 50% vote in first round, so if all these votes now would go to a single right candidate remaining, Trzaskowski could easily lose.”

Election results in Romania, Poland and Portugal