Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in Romania where people are voting in a presidential election that has huge implications for the country's relationship with the United States,
the European Union and for the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
It is in fact a rerun of an election held last November.
The result of that was annulled by the Constitutional Court after allegations of fraud and Russian interference in favour of Kalin Georgescu.
He's the far-right candidate who came from nowhere to emerge as the winner of the first round.
Furthermore, he's been barred from standing again,
decisions that have drawn sharp criticism from the US Vice President J.D.
Vance, who's described it all as undemocratic censorship.
Well, Mr. Georgescu cast his vote alongside the new frontrunner,
George Simeon, also a right-wing ultranationalist.
I voted with Caelan Georgescu.
Our only mission here is to regain the constitutional order and democracy.
My only objective is to put Romanians first.
Well, let's go live to Bucharest and speak to our Central Europe correspondent, Nick Thorpe.
And Nick, just first of all, I mean, your impressions of turnout for this rerun?
Well, James, it's looking pretty big.
Some of the projections so far are looking at well into the 60% margin.