Twenty percent of Romanians live outside the country – a total of 5 million people
In the first round of the election on 4 May, the Romanian far right obtained even higher results outside its borders than it did within – Simion came first with more than 40 per cent of the vote in Romania, but took more than 60 per cent of the vote in the diaspora.
While Muslim minorities in Europe tend to vote for left parties, predominantly voting for the left in Germany, France or my home country of the Netherlands for example, there’s also the more recent phenomenon of parties established to specifically cater to Muslim voters.