Twenty percent of Romanians live outside the country – a total of 5 million people
In the first round of the election on 4 May, the Romanian far right obtained even higher results outside its borders than it did within – Simion came first with more than 40 per cent of the vote in Romania, but took more than 60 per cent of the vote in the diaspora.
Living in another country you either adapt or become more proud of your origin. The former group is less likely to vote and the later group votes far right.
That can be most clearly seen with groups, which had to choose citizenship, as for example Turks in Germany. For a long time Germany did not allow dual citizenship. That ended up with Turks living in Germany voting for Erdogan, if they had Turkish citizenship. However Turks who became German citizens are much more likely to vote for left leaning parties in German elections.
While Muslim minorities in Europe tend to vote for left parties, predominantly voting for the left in Germany, France or my home country of the Netherlands for example, there’s also the more recent phenomenon of parties established to specifically cater to Muslim voters.