Far-right candidate leads Romania's presidential rerun: exit polls

Romania’s far-right candidate George Simion was leading in Sunday’s first round of presidential elections according to exit polls, in the rerun of last year’s annulled ballot that plunged the European Union member into political turmoil.

Simion, leader of the nationalist AUR party, scored between 30 to 33 percent of the vote, ahead of two pro-European candidates who took between 21 and 23 percent, according to two polls.