The presidential election held in Romania on the 4th ended at 21:00 local time. Exit polls show that no candidate has received more than half of the votes, and the election will enter the second round of voting. According to the exit poll results released by two authoritative polling institutions in Romania, Pioneer Social Behavior Research Group and Urban and Regional Sociological Research Center, the President of the Romanian Solidarity Union Party, Giorgio Simion, led the other candidates in the first round of voting, but did not receive a majority of votes. The exit poll results of the Pioneer Social Behavior Research Group show that Simi ó n received 30% of the vote, while the candidates of the Romanian Forward Election Alliance, Klin Antonescu and Bucharest Mayor Nikusor Daan, received 23% of the vote each. The exit poll of the Urban and Regional Sociological Research Center shows that Simion leads with 33.1% of the vote, Antonescu has 22.9% of the vote, and Dane ranks third with 20.9% of the vote. According to Romanian electoral law, in presidential elections, if no candidate receives more than half of the votes, the top two candidates with the highest number of votes will enter the second round of voting. The second round of voting is scheduled for May 18th. At that time, those who obtain a simple majority of votes will be elected president. Romania held a new presidential election on the 4th, with a total of 11 candidates running. About 19000 polling stations have been set up both domestically and overseas, with a total of approximately 18 million registered voters. On November 24, 2024, Romania held the first round of presidential elections. On December 6th of the same year, the Constitutional Court of Romania ruled that the results of the first round of voting were invalid. In January 2025, the Romanian authorities decided to hold a new presidential election on May 4th. (New Society)