Policy Voices | Centre holds in Romania, Portugal but will this be the last chance to prove it can govern?

After a Super Sunday in Europe, Policy Voices brings you three guests. The three consequential elections took place in Romania, Portugal and Poland and history kept repeating itself. The centre holds far from an absolute majority, the far-right continues its speedy ascent to power and the left gets handed an embarrassing defeat.

In Romania, Nicusor Dan managed to turn around the results from the first round and beat the far-right candidate George Simion in the presidential elections. To bring you up to speed, host Catarina Vila Nova speaks with Dacian Ciolos, former prime minister of Romania and European commissioner who currently serves as special advisor to Romania’s interim President, and Andrei Popoviciu, a Romanian journalist who’s been covering the elections for Politico and The Guardian.

In Portugal, the Democratic Alliance (who sits with the EPP in the European Parliament), repeated last year’s feat of winning again the general elections albeit far from an absolute majority. Of note is the fact that the far-right Chega came neck and neck with the Socialists who are now tied in second place. To understand the Portuguese results, Catarina speaks with the Portuguese political analyst Maria Luisa Moreira.

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