Reform candidate Basescu wins Romanian presidential runoff
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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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Romanians started to cast ballots in a second-round run-off vote on Sunday to elect a new president for a five-year term. About 17,560 polling stations across the country
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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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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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Romanian President Traian Basescu  said on Thursday he would support early polls to strengthen the  new centrist coalition government, shocking the Balkan  country's political scene just weeks after elections.
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Â¡Â¡BEJIJING, Dec. 14 -- Romanian opposition candidate Traian Basescu has won the presidential election after overcoming current Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in the tightest of contests.
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Traian Basescu, the head of Romania&#39;s main opposition alliance won the presidential run-off election against Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, early results said.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanians returned to the polls Sunday for a presidential runoff between their leftist prime minister, formerly a member of the communist elite, and the capital&#39;s Western-leaning mayor.
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Romania&#39;s ruling party appears to have won the presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, but by smaller margins than exit polls had suggested.
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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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BUCHAREST  - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead the former communist country into the European Union.
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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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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian  Nastase and popular Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu face off in  a presidential election runoff on Sunday seen as key for the  Balkan country's European Union accession path.
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In a Jan. 15 story about Romanian revolutionaries, The Associated Press erroneously reported that former President Ion Iliescu stepped down after he was defeated by Traian Basescu in a presidential election. Iliescu did not run in the election. Basescu won a runoff vote against Adrian Nastase in December.
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Both candidates claimed victory in the Romanian presidential runoff vote Sunday, and exit polls showed Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu and Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in a virtual tie.
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BUCHAREST  - Romania&#39;s presidential race ended in a tie between Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and his centre-right rival Traian Basescu, exit polls showed a few hours after voting ended.
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Romania's centrist opposition leader  Traian Basescu scored an upset victory in a presidential race  against leftist Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, partial official  results showed Monday.