Opposition candidate wins Romanian presidential vote
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Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania's hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country's EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest faced the arduous task of trying to ...
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Romanian centrist Traian Basescu scored an upset presidential win 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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The party of Kenya's opposition challenger Raila Odinga says he has won his country's presidential election.
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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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Prime Minister Adrian Nastase said Monday he had conceded defeat in Romania's presidential runoff in a telephone call to opponent Traian Basescu, whom he called "the future president of Romania."
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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 : Amid allegations of widescale fraud, the candidate of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) narrowly emerged the leader in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential election, according to partial vote tallies.
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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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The pro-western mayor of Bucharest caused a serious upset in the Romanian presidential election yesterday, defeating the country&#39;s former communist prime minister.
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BUCHAREST  - 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.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase claimed victory for his Social Democrats party (PSD) in Sunday's parliamentary elections following favorable showings in exit polls.
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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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Nearly 18 million Romanians are eligible to vote Sunday in the first round of a presidential election to replace Ion Iliescu and lead the former communist state into the European Union.
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Romania's centrist opposition said Monday its own count of votes from the cliffhanger presidential run-off showed their leader Traian Basescu triumphing over leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase.
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Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has won Sunday&#39;s presidential election after winning 94.48 percent of votes with all constituencies counted, preliminary official results said early Monday.
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The opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged victorious from Romania&#39;s presidential elections yesterday, promising to tackle corruption and backtracking on suggestions that he
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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.