Social Democrat PM Nastase secures lead in Romanian presidential vote
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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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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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Opinion polls give Prime Minister Adrian Nastase the edge as Romania chooses a new president on Sunday.
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Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and centrist opposition leader Traian Basescu emerged virtually neck-and-neck from the second round of presidential elections on Sunday, exit polls showed.
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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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Romania's new prime minister gained enough support for a centre-right majority when a former ally of the Social Democratic opposition said it would back him, ending a period of political uncertainty after legislative and presidential elections.
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Romania&#39;s former communists looked likely to retain power last night when exit polls put them comfortably ahead in elections for both parliament and president.
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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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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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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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Romania faced weeks of uncertainty on  Monday after inconclusive general elections in the poor Balkan  country, already struggling to stay on track to join the  European Union.  Partial results showed the ruling ex-communist Social Democrats  (PSD) of Prime Minister Adrian Nastase a whisker ahead of the  opposition centrists in Sunday's election but well short of a  majority in parliament.
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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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Romania's ruling Social Democrats have emerged ahead in a general election but may be deprived of a clear majority needed to keep the Balkan country on track towards the European Union, exit polls showed.
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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
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Popular Bucharest mayor Traian Basescu may be forced to run against Prime Minister Adrian Nastase in Romania`s presidential race after the main opposition candidate quit for health reasons, analysts said on ...
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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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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA - Exit polls show no clear victor in Romania&#39;s presidential election Sunday, making it likely that the two front-runners will compete in a runoff vote next month.