Teodor Melescanu

Teodor Melescanu, an independent candidate in the presidential elections on Sunday morning said he was very pleased to present the people another profile of a candidate, stressing the "rest is their problem."

The overall value of the donations received and declared by the political parties, political and pre-election alliances and the independent candidates in the electoral campaign for the president of Romania stood at 7,581,405 lei as of Oct. 30, the Permanent Electoral Authority said in a release to AGERPRES on Friday. (1 euro=4.4 lei)

Teodor Meleşcanu, an independent candidate running to become Romania's President, said Monday his country should aspire to achieve the tax collection rate of Bulgaria.

Meleşcanu argued state revenues would be up EUR 10 B if this goal is fulfilled, the national Bulgarian News Agency reports citing its Romanian counterpart agency AGERPRES.

Teodor Melescanu, running for president as an independent candidate, says ostensible judiciary actions during the campaign have prevented the candidates from presenting their programmes.

The Public Policies Institute (IPP) invites the main candidates to an electoral debate before the first round of the November 2 presidential elections following a format in use in other countries as well.

Former Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) head Teodor Melescanu said on Friday that President Traian Basescu didn't request him to present a list, but the names of Government members that also served as undercover officers.

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

Independent presidential candidate Teodor Melescanu said on Sunday in Oradea that the most difficult prerogative he will have as president will be to play the part of the mediator, but to harmonize various interests will also be his greatest satisfaction.

Teodor Melescanu, who runs for the presidential office as an independent, said on Saturday in the western city of Arad that he will be a President of all Romanians, stressing that one of his goals is to make the state powers work properly, without interfering with each other.

Teodor Melescanu, an independent candidate for Romania's president, has stated that anybody wishing to support or join him in the presidential campaign will be welcome, provided that the support will include not only him as a candidate but his political programme too.