Vadim Tudor

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a politician known for his strongly nationalist and xenophobic views, died of cardiovascular disease in Bucharest on Monday. He was 65.

Tudor began his public career as a writer and poet and penned verses flattering Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

National leader of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor, on Thursday said UDMR will recommend the ethnic Hungarian voters to vote according to their own beliefs in the November 16 presidential runoff election.

Statistics published on Thursday on the website of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) show Christian Liberal Alliance candidate Klaus Iohannis got 46.17 percent (73,912 votes) and incumbent Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta 15.90 percent (25,466 votes) of votes cast abroad in the first round of the presidential ballot.

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

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

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democrat Party-National Union for Romania's Progress-Conservative Party got 41.5 percent of the votes in the presidential election on Sunday; Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis has 31.2 percent, according to an exit poll carried out by IRES and broadcast by Digi 24 TV.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democrat Party-National Union for Romania's Progress-Conservative Party got 38.2 percent of the votes in the presidential election on Sunday; Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis has 32.1 percent, according to an exit poll carried out by the and broadcasted by Realitatea TV.

Chairman of the Greater Romania Party (PRM) Corneliu Vadim Tudor said that for the first time he is certain that elections are completely pointless and that the way towards vote rigging is paved by fake opinion polls.

Presidential candidate of the Greater Romania Party (PRM) Corneliu Vadim Tudor says Romania's chief of state should be a strong character, a moral standard. As for what recommends him to the highest office of the land, he says the high popularity he enjoys with the public and the fact that PRM has never been at rule.

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'.