Socialist Alliance Party

Final provisional count of the presidential election: Ponta - 40.44 pct, Iohannis - 30.37 pct

Victor Ponta, endorsed by an alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC), won 40.44 per cent of the votes in the November 2 first round of the presidential election, while the endorsee of the Christian-Liberal Alliance (ACL) won 30.37 per cent, according to data released on Tuesday by the Central E

BEC - partial results: Ponta 39.57 pct, Iohannis 30.19 pct

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party alliance got 39.57 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, while Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis got 30.19 percent, according to partial data released by the Central Electoral

Presidential candidates get all-clear, none found to ever have worked for former political police

The National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) announced on Friday that none of the 14 candidates running for the office of President of Romania has been a collaborator or worked for the former political police 'Securitate'.