Authorities have cleared a dozen candidates for the May election — and rejected a dozen others. Meet the runners and riders ...

Far-right party leader George Simion is leading in Romania’s presidential race, according to a new CURS poll conducted ...

Based on the available polls, an evaluation of the candidate's potential, and considering the dynamics of the electoral debates, three major candidates emerge as main players ahead of the presidential ...

George Simion, the leader of Romania's second-largest party, became the hard right's candidate in a May presidential election ...

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

Two Romanian far-right parties on Wednesday announced George Simion as their candidate for the May presidential election, ...

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said his government may be hobbled if the presidential candidate jointly backed by the ruling coalition fails to win an election in May, adding to the Black Sea ...

An opinion survey released earlier this month showed Simion would make it into the run-off vote but is trailing Nicusor Dan, the centrist mayor of capital Bucharest running as an independent.

(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru) Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, speaks to media before registering his bid for the country's presidency, outside Romania's Electoral Authority, in Bucharest ...