A Romanian nationalist whose two newspapers are vehicles for anti-Semitic attacks is expected to place second in presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, according to a new poll. Coneliu Vadim Tudor, who promises to punish “traitors of the nation,” would gain 19 percent of the vote, second to former President Ion Iliescu, the poll said.
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