INSCOP: Ten per cent gap between Ponta and Iohannis in first round of presidential elections

With as many as 59 per cent of Romanians saying they will go to the ballot boxes in the first round of the presidential election this November, 40.6 per cent claimed they will vote for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Victor Ponta and 30.1 per cent for Klaus Iohannis, the National Liberal Party (PNL) Chairman, reveals an INSCOP poll, conducted over October 2-8 and released on Wednesday.

The poll shows that PMP's (People's Movement Party) Elena Udrea would be on the third place in the first round, with 6.7 per cent of the votes, followed by PLR's (Liberal Reformist Party) Calin Popescu Tariceanu (6.2 per cent), independent Teodor Melescanu (4.6 per cent), independent Monica Macovei (4.6 per cent), UDMR's (Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania) Kelemen Hunor (2.5 per cent), Dan Diaconescu (2 per cent) of the People's Party — Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD) and PRM's (the Greater Romania Party) Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1.7 per cent). The other candidates — Gheorghe Funar, Zsolt Szilagyi, William Branza, Constantin Rotaru, Mirel Mircea Amaritei — are rated together with 1 per cent of the votes.

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