PRO-European Union candidate Nicusor Dan won Sunday’s closely watched presidential run-off in Romania against a far-right candidate who modelled his campaign after United States President Donald Trump.

The victory marked a major turnaround in a tense election that many viewed as a geopolitical choice for the former Eastern Bloc country between East or West.

The race pitted George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), against Mr Dan, the incumbent mayor of Bucharest.