Social Democrats claim victory in Romania’s election

 

 

BUCHAREST: -- Romania’s leftist Social Democrat Party (PSD) says it will begin talks on forming a coalition after exit polls had them winning Sunday’s parliamentary election.

 

The PSD is seeking re-election a year after the coalition it led stepped down amid street protests triggered by a fatal nightclub fire in Bucharest.

 

The demonstrations against inept officials and corruption have since faded.

 

PSD leader Liviu Dragnea has promised reforms.

His campaign in the run-up to Sunday’s vote pledged to address low living standards throughout much of Romania. Claiming victory he said:

 

“I want to assure all Romanians that everything we have presented (promised) in our economic programme during this electoral campaign will be implemented by a PSDgovernment.”

 

Winning close to 46 percent of the vote, the PSD will bring into government their long term liberal ally known as ALDE which took about 6 percent.

 

The PSD’s nearest rival, the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), was left far behind in the Sunday’s poll garnering just 20%. A total of 504 seats were being contested.

 

One notable performance came from a newcomer to Romanian politics, “The Save Romania Union” party led by Nicusor Dan which on its first time out has won up to 9 percent.

 

The PDS wants to install Dragnea as prime minister but it’s unclear if that will happen. He is curently serving a two year suspended sentence over electoral fraud which legally bars him from office. He has denied any wrongdoing. But either way the vote marks a remarkable come back for the politician.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-12-12

My question is,was Dracula a democrat or a republican?

Romania, another old European country with a

corruption problem,  oh  surprise, surprise.

 Is  there  any country  in Europe  that  is  not

corrupt, as I am beginning to think.  Not.

Geezer

4 minutes ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

Romania, another old European country with a

corruption problem,  oh  surprise, surprise.

 Is  there  any country  in Europe  that  is  not

corrupt, as I am beginning to think.  Not.

Geezer

Think again. Transparency Internation's listing of government corruption rates 7 out of the 10 most honest governments to be European. https://www.transparency.org/cpi2015/#results-table