George Simion, the AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romania) candidate, collected 3,862,761 votes (40.96%) in the first round of the presidential elections, followed by the independent candidate Nicusor Dan, with 1,979,767 votes (20.99%), the Central Electoral Bureau informs, after centralizing all the minutes from the country and abroad.

The BEC published the final results of the first round of the presidential elections on Tuesday evening.

The total number of voters who turned out to the polling stations in the first round of the elections is 9,571,899, representing 53.19% of the total number of voters registered with the permanent electoral lists.

There were 9,430,274 valid votes cast, representing 98.52% of the total number of voters who turned up to vote, and 141,388 invalid votes, representing 1.48% of the total number of voters who turned up at the polling stations.

The situation of the votes obtained by the candidates is as follows:

* George Simion (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) – 3,862,761 (40.96%)

* Nicusor Dan (independent) – 1,979,767 (20.99%)

* Crin Antonescu (Electoral Alliance ‘Romania, Forward!’) – 1,892,930 (20.07%)

* Victor Ponta (independent) – 1,230,164 (13.04%)

* Elena Lasconi (Save Romania Union) – 252,721 (2.68%)

* Lavinia Sandru (Social Liberal Humanist Party) – 60,682 (0.64%)

* Daniel Funeriu (independent) – 49,604 (0.53%)

* Cristian Terhes (Romanian National Conservative Party) – 36,445 (0.39%)

* Sebastian Popescu (New Romania Party) – 25,994 (0.28%)

* John Ion Banu Muscel (independent) – 22,020 (0.23%)

* Silviu Predoiu (National Action League Party) – 17,186 (0.18%).

AGERPRES