George Simion, the frontrunner in Sunday's presidential runoff, is a former football hooligan and fan of US President Donald Trump who is promising to put "Romania first". - Violence and insults - In his youth,

Eurosceptic hard-right lawmaker George Simion could be elected Romania's president on Sunday, riding a wave of popular anger over living costs, corruption and the cancellation of a vote last year that another far-right contender had looked set to win.

George Simion, a nationalist and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, won Romania’s first-round presidential election redo by a landslide after capitalizing on widespread anti-establishment sentiment.