European Union presidential candidate Nicușor Dan won the country’s presidential election Sunday, defeating his ultranationalist rival. With more than 99% of the votes counted, the centrist candidate won at least 53% of the ballots cast,

Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest, defeated George Simion, a nationalist aligned with President Trump who had been seen as the front-runner.

A Simion victory would strengthen the bloc of Euroskeptic leaders already governing EU countries — a group that includes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Like them,