Hard-right candidate leads field as new Romania election campaign begins

  Romanian presidential candidates began campaigning on Friday for the rerun of an election canceled over accusations of Russian meddling, with Romania's role in NATO and the EU and its aid to neighbouring Ukraine in the spotlight.

Leading opinion polls for the first round of the two-round election on May 4 and 18 is opposition leader George Simion, who has drawn supporters from the cancelled vote's far-right frontrunner Calin Georgescu, whom he had supported.

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