Shock as pro-Russia candidate comes first in Romanian election first round – video | Romania

Călin Georgescu, a Nato critic who praised Vladimir Putin as ‘a man who loves his country’, won 22.9% of the vote in the first round of the presidential election. He will face the centre-right candidate Elena Lasconi, who won 19.17%. The prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, had been expected to win the race, but came third with 19.15% of the vote