William Branza

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.

Presidential candidate of the Romanian Green Party (PER) William Branza said Saturday in Targu-Jiu, southern Romania, that Romania today looks like a broken family, given that very many Romanians have moved out overseas and left their families behind.

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

Fourteen candidates are participating in the presidential election of this autumn.

Fourteen candidates have enrolled at the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) to enter the race for Romania's President.