Three elections, one message: Europe's Maga populists are on the rise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Like Simion, Ventura has played up his proximity to Trump -- and so has Nawrocki, who secured a brief photo opportunity with the US president ahead of the vote.
49% : EU leaders lavished praise on Nicuşor Dan, the mathematician turned reformist mayor of Bucharest, for beating ultranationalist George Simion to win Romania's presidency after coming a distant second in the first round.
44% : " In Poland, the pro-EU mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, is facing an unexpectedly tough run-off against the nationalist candidate Karol Nawrocki on June 1 after only just beating him to first place in Sunday's first round.
39% : In Romania, Dan may be reformist but he is socially conservative, having quit the party he founded because of his opposition to same-sex marriage.
38% : Although the fork in the road for Poland is not quite as stark as it was for Romania, which has not had a Eurosceptic leader since the fall of communism, the outcome next month is still hugely consequential for the EU.
36% : They also showed how vaunting an ideological affinity with Donald Trump can pay off electorally.

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