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Opinion polls - notoriously unreliable in Romania - suggest that he will come first today, then will face a tough contest with either Nicusor Dan or Crin Antonescu in the run-off.

He is followed in the polls by Crin Antonescu of the National Liberal Party and independent candidate Nicușor Dan.

Crin Antonescu, former leader of the National Liberal party however welcomed the court ruling and said he could not understand Lasconi's reaction.

As some of the characters note, the 1989 revolution that deposed Ceausescu encouraged a rose-tinted reappraisal of the anti-communist Antonescu’s legacy and a willingness to look past his most unspeakable war crimes.

The title of “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude’s explosively eloquent and morally galvanizing sixth feature, is a quotation from the words of Ion Antonescu, the 1940s Romanian marshal who steered his country into an alliance with Nazi Germany.