A Romanian presidential contender echoed warnings from Donald Trump’s administration that Sunday’s election must refrain from “censoring opponents,” laying bare how the US president looms over the Black Sea nation’s contentious ballot.

Romanians vote on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that could propel hard-right eurosceptic George Simion to power in a ballot that will test the rise of Donald-Trump-style nationalism in the European Union.

Romanians vote Sunday in one of the EU country’s most important elections in decades after the previous ballot was annulled following allegations of violations and Russian interference