Basescu leads Romania presidential runoff
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BUCHAREST, Romania - Reformist opposition candidate Traian Basescu was winning Romania&#39;s presidential runoff in a tight contest, according to partial official results released Monday.
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Observers fear that vote tampering will mar results of Sunday&#39;s presidential election in Romania. The close race is between Bucharest&#39;s mayor, Traian Basescu, a frank-talking, hands-on
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Opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won an upset victory in Romania&#39;s presidential runoff, defeating Prime Minister Adrian Nastase.
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BUCHAREST -- Exit polls indicated no clear winner in Romania&#39;s presidential election yesterday, forcing a runoff next month between a former ship&#39;s captain with a populist message and a political veteran whose party is associated with the country&#39;s
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Campaigning ended ahead of the weekend for the first round of Romanian presidential elections that will choose the head of state to lead the former communist state into the European Union.
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Romanians return to the polls on Sunday for a run-off election between Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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Romanian centrist Traian Basescu  scored an upset presidential win on Monday and vowed to replace  the ruling ex-communists with a reformist team in the run-up to  European Union entry in 2007.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and popular Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu face off in a presidential election runoff on Sunday seen as key
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and popular Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu faced off in a tough presidential election on Sunday seen as key for the Balkan country's European Union accession path.
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Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu claimed victory Monday in Romania&#39;s presidential run-off, pledging to fight corruption and prepare Romania to join the European Union by 2007.
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Amid allegations of widescale fraud, the candidate of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) narrowly emerged the leader in the first round of Romania's presidential election, according to partial vote tallies.
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BUCHAREST: Romanians voted for a new president on Sunday with fighting corruption and joining the EU the main themes in a run-off round pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.
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Voters in Romania are going to the polls in the final round of a presidential runoff which will determine who will lead the former Communist nation into the European Union in 2007.
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Both candidates of Romania's presidential runoff claimed victory on Sunday while exit polls showed them neck-and-neck. Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the 54-year-old candidate of the ruling Social Democrats, ...
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Reformist opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania&#39;s presidential runoff election, according to nearly complete returns Monday -- a blow to the successors of the once-powerful communists who ruled for most of the period since the 1989 revolution.
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Traian Basescu, a sea captain turned politician, won a surprise victory in Romania&#39;s presidential run-off election held on Sunday, according to final results announced yesterday.
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Romanians went to the polls to elect a president in a second-round run-off vote pitting Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the favourite, against Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu.