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'I feel like I'm dreaming': How Romania is reacting to surprise election result
The roads in the heart of Bucharest were swaying.
People were singing, laughing, and looking up at a balcony, waiting for the next president to appear. In the end, he took to the street, walking along the pavement, high-fiving everyone within reach.
After a campaign full of rancour and division, Nicosur Dan, a 55-year-old mathematician, finally looked like he was enjoying life. His victory was more comprehensive than most had predicted.
A week ago, the favourite to win this election was his rival, the populist George Simion, but Dan gradually rose in the polls. Among the crowd, there was a sense that some had voted because they wanted him to win, and others had backed him because they didn't like Mr Simion's Donald Trump-inspired brand of strongman leadership.
Some even felt it brought back memories of the brutal communist past that once cowed this country. "I have felt overwhelmed and scared," said Nicoletta.
"For the last couple of weeks we lived in terror of returning to something we had to live with for 45 years." Alongside her was Ada - one of many, many young voters I met in the crowd. She told me she felt like she was "dreaming.
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