/ourguy/ George Simion might not win the Romanian presidential election after all: the polls showed the race tightening during the last 2 weeks, and the voter turnout today is unusually high, suggesting the the media fearmongering about Simion has been effective, and that the Normies are mobilizing to prevent Romania from being "taken over by Russia". Romania is socially conservative, but overall pro-NATO, pro-EU and anti-Russia, so the voters are very much susceptible to that kind of rhetoric. Also, reformist Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan is way more palatable to anti-Establishment voters than PSD lackey Crin Antonescu.

It's not all bad tho - the long-term prospects for the Nationalists are still good, and it might not be the worst thing in the world to let the USR party take the fall for the rough economic times that are projected for the next few years.