Hungarian minority plays key role in Nicușor Dan's Romanian presidential win
High voter turnout, especially among young people and women, helped Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan win Romania's presidential runoff, defeating the hard-right George Simion.
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00:00The high turnout, including an unusually high level of participation among young people and women, helped Romania to elect Nicolòs Dàn, the mayor of Bucharest, as president.
00:13Dàn defeated the ultra-nationalist Giorgia Simeon by convincing seven-point margin on Sunday in the run-off election.
00:21Vice President of the UDMR, the Party of the Hungarian Minority in Romania, told Euronews the current party's structure does not allow for immediate change.
00:51It is not easy to do this, but it is not easy to do this, it is not easy to do this, it is not easy to do this, but it is not easy to do this.
01:06According to a historian Stefano Bottoni, the fact that the two anti-establishment candidates made it to the final round shows that the mainstream parties failed to take advantage of the reprieve by the rerun election.
01:19In Romania, presidential powers are mostly ceremonial, but the president represents the country in the European Council.
01:49However, it is the parliament and its elected governments that make most of the decisions.
01:54The next legislative elections in Romania are due in three years.
