Surprise victory for Basescu in Romania
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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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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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Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu, the head of Romania&#39;s two-party main opposition alliance, beat Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in a run-off election to become the Balkan nation&#39;s third president and lead it into the European Union.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase claimed victory for his Social Democrats party (PSD) in Sunday&#39;s parliamentary elections following favorable showings in exit polls.
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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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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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Traian Basescu took office Monday as Romania's third president since the Communist regime fell in 1989, and he pledged to clean up rampant corruption and carry out reforms that will ready the country for European Union membership.
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Romania won the women's artistic  gymnastics team gold medal at the Olympics Tuesday.
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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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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 form a government from a fragmented parliamentary base.
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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 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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Romania&#39;s ruling ex-communists scored a wafer-thin victory over opposition centrists in Sunday&#39;s parliamentary vote, according to partial official results.
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Partial results put opposition candidate Traian Basescu narrowly ahead in the race to be Romanian president.
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An impressive display from Scotland sees off a lackluster Romania at Murrayfield.
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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 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.