Opposition candidate wins Romanian presidential vote
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Bucharest: Opposition candidate Traian Basescu won Romania&#39;s hotly-contested presidential election dominated by the country&#39;s EU membership bid, but the centre-right mayor of Bucharest on Monday faced the arduous task of trying to form a government from a
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The parliament of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region says the opposition candidate won presidential elections.
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Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu is declared Romania's next president after a decisive victory in the elections.
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ROMANIA turned its back on the countryâs communist past yesterday with the unexpected election of Traian Basescu, the reformist Mayor of Bucharest, as its next President.
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Slovenia's centre-right opposition wins a surprise victory in the first national poll since EU membership.
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A supporter puts up a poster for Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu. BUCHAREST, Romania  -- Romanians, angered by poverty and corruption, began voting Sunday in a closely contested election to decide who ...
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian  Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged  neck-and-neck from the second round of presidential elections  on Sunday, exit polls showed.
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The three victories won against the Social Democrat Party (PSD) (the Bucharest mayor office in 2000 and 2004, and the presidency in 2004) indicate the fact that Basescu's moves aren't accidental at all.
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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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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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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.
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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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Adrian Nastase, Romania&#39;s prime minister, yesterday claimed victory for his party in yesterday&#39;s parliamentary vote and appeared to be in a strong position to win the presidency.
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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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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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THE Romanian opposition leader, Traian Basescu, was yesterday declared winner of the countryâs presidential election. The victory appears to mark the end of the last of Eastern Europeâs Communist &quot;dynasties
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Uruguayan opposition candidate Tabare Vazquez captured enough votes to win the presidency in today&#39;s first-round vote, exit polls from the country&#39;s four-biggest pollsters showed.