"We congratulate all our international partners who won the elections in France, Italy, Latvia, and many other European countries," says the leader of Romania's far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party, George Simion, at an EU elections event in Bucharest, after exit polls projected the party in second place. "Through the representatives of our allies, through the European sovereignist forces, Ursula von der Leyen, as of tonight, will no longer be head of the European Commission," Simion added. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES