🇪🇺🇬🇷 Congratulations to Klavdia and the well-deserved 6th place, she represented our nation well with a song that highlights the struggles of many of our compatriots.

Obviously won’t comment on the rest.


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🇷🇴 Today is the second round of the presidential election in Romania.

📃 Main parties and candidates:
💛 George Simion (AUR): incumbent MP for AUR
💙 Nicușor Dan (Independent): incumbent Mayor of Bucharest

📊 Polls show both candidates deadlocked:
🗳 Simion: 48-53%
🗳 Dan: 48-52%

🗳 Polls will remain open until 21:00 EEST.

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV has officially begun his pontificate as the 267th leader of the Catholic Church, receiving the traditional symbols of papal authority: the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium, a woolen band adorned with embroidered crosses.
This ancient and solemn rite marks the formal commencement of his role as the spiritual shepherd of over a billion Catholics worldwide.


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🇵🇱 Another election is held in Poland, which is also presidential.

📃 Main parties and candidates:
💙 Karol Nawrocki (PiS): incumbent President of the Institute of National Rememberance
🧡 Rafał Trzaskowski (PO): incumbent Mayor of Warsaw
💙 Sławomir Mentzen (Konfederacja): chairman of NN
💛 Szymon Hołownia (PL2050): incumbent Marshal of the Sejm
❤️ Magdalena Biejat (Lewica): deputy Marshal of the Senate
💜 Adrian Zandberg (Razem): co-leader of Razem
💛 Grzegorz Braun (KKP): incumbent MEP, leader of KKP

🗳 The campaign focused on foreign policy, with a clash between pro-European and Eurosceptic parties, and social values, with liberals supporting abortion and LGBT people, while conservatives backing up traditional values.

📊 Latest polls indicate a Trzaskowski lead, with a fierce battle expected at the second round with Nawrocki:
🗳 Trzaskowski: 28-33%
🗳 Nawrocki: 22-26%
🗳 Mentzen: 10-13%
🗳 Hołownia: 5-8%
🗳 Biejat: 4-6%
🗳 Zandberg: 4-6%
🗳 Braun: 3-5%

🗳 Polls will remain open until 21:00 CEST. There will be a second round if no candidate reached 50%.

🇵🇹 The last election we’ll cover today is in Portugal and people will vote for the Assembly of the Republic and the next government.

📃 Main parties and candidates:
💙 PSD/CDS (Liberal Conservatism): Luís Montenegro (incumbent Prime Minister)
❤️ PS (Social Democracy): Pedro Nuno Santos
🖤 Chega (National Conservatism): André Ventura
💙 IL (Liberalism): Rui Rocha
❤️ BE (Democratic Socialism): Mariana Mortágua
❤️ CDU (Communism): Paulo Raimundo
💚 LIVRE (Green Politics): Rui Tavares
💚 PAN (Environmentalism): Inês de Sousa Real

🗳 The topics that dominated the campaign were the housing crisis, quality of health services and government stability. Voter apathy is expected to play a role in the election’s outcome.

📊 Polls indicate a lead for PSD/CDS although it won’t guarantee the formation of a government:
🗳 PSD/CDS: 28-33%
🗳 PS: 24-28%
🗳 Chega: 15-17%
🗳 IL: 5-7%
🗳 LIVRE: 3-5%
🗳 BE: 2-3%
🗳 CDU: 2-3%
🗳 PAN: 0.5-1%

🗳 Polls will remain open until 20:00 UTC. There is no electoral threshold.

🇱🇧🟡🗳 The Hezbollah–Amal Movement electoral list scores a significant win in Baalbek.


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🇱🇧🗳 Context; municipal elections are held all over Lebanon today and will continue in every weekend of May.

They are the first to be held since 2016 and the results will probably reveal the effect of new sectarian dynamics.


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🇱🇧🗳 Program for the last two weeks:

Sunday 18 May: Beirut, Beqaa, and Baalbek-Hermel
Saturday 24 May: South Lebanon and Nabatieh


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🇫🇷 About 130 flights canceled due to malfunction at Paris Orly Airport.


📝 AFP
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🇱🇧🟡🗳️ Pro-Hezbollah marches in the streets of Beirut, raising the party’s flags.


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🇱🇧🔺🗳 LBCI reports that the “Heart of Zahle” list backed by the Lebanese Forces is leading over the rival list in Zahle. Lebanese Forces celebrations confirm their victory in this key city of the Beqaa region.


📝 LBCI
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🇷🇴 Romanian Presidential Election 2025 Exit Poll (TVR1):
🗳 Dan: 54.90%
🗳 Simion: 45.10%


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🇱🇧🔺🗳️ The Lebanese Forces have won the Zahle municipality.


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🇷🇴 Considering that opinion polls gave us a tie, I expect the final results to be way closer.

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🇷🇴 Romanian Presidential Election 2025 Exit Poll (Romania TV):
🗳 Dan: 50%
🗳 Simion: 50%


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