Opposition leads in Romania poll
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Partial results put opposition candidate Traian Basescu narrowly ahead in the race to be Romanian president.
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Romania's electoral committee confirmed Monday that centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu won the tight presidential run-off against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase.
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Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, started voting on Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who will lead the Balkan country through two years of hard European Union-dictated reforms.
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Romanian opposition leader Traian  Basescu won a tight presidential election on Monday and vowed  to usher in a centrist government to end the ex-communist  left's hold on power and take the country into the EU in 2007.
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BUCHAREST - The presidential election in Romania is too close to call. Both candidates are claiming victory after exit polls showed a virtual dead heat.
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Romania's opposition accused the government on Monday of busing its supporters around the country to vote several times in parliamentary and presidential elections.
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - Romania's centrist  opposition Tuesday demanded a rerun of Sunday's general  elections, claiming fraud in the electronic vote counting had  helped the ruling ex-communists win a slim lead.
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Romanians voted Sunday for a new president and parliament in the fifth free election during Romania&#39;s post-communist era. Turnout was moderate officials said, with 43 percent of registered voters having cast their ballot by 5 pm local time Sunday.
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Presidential elections began early Sunday in Romania with around 18 million eligible voters expected to vote in the first round of the race.
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BUCHAREST  - Romania&#39;s presidential election ended in suspense as exit polls disagreed on whether Prime Minister Adrian Nastase had won narrowly or tied with his centre-right rival Traian Basescu.
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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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Traian Basescu is the projected winner of Romania&#39;s presidential election, with 51.7 percent of the vote, the central election commission said Monday.
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BUCHAREST : Romania's Social Democrat Prime Minister Adrian Nastase was leading the country's presidential race with some 40 percent of the vote, exit polls showed after voting ended.
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Echoing events in Ukraine where a populist opposition candidate faced the ruling party's favorite, Romanian voters will decide Sunday whether a sophisticated ex-communist or a scrappy ex-sailor will preside ...
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Voting ends in Romania's election with exit polls showing a dead heat between the presidential candidates.
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In Romania, voters are deciding who will lead the impoverished former Communist nation toward membership in the European Union. The elections for a new president and parliament have been overshadowed
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and his left-wing party faced a tough challenge from the centrist opposition in presidential and parliamentary elections yesterday.