Elena Udrea

Eighteen million Romanians are voting for president on Sunday among 14 candidates.

The most likely winner, according to public opinion polls, is current PM Victor Ponta.

Romania's Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta leads in opinion polls ahead of the first round of presidential elections on November 2.

According to a CSCI poll conducted from October 27 to October 29,the 42-year-old prime minister is expected to garner 40% support, while his main opponent, Liberal Party head Klaus Iohannis, will get 29%.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday said that President Traian Basescu needs to say which intelligence service precisely broke the law by taking some pictures of Elena Udrea and Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) head Alina Bica in Paris.

There will be no duties and taxes raise in 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president, declared on Monday at the Parliament Palace.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) - the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) - the Conservative Party (PC) candidate in presidential elections, said late on Sunday that the objective of his campaign for the first round is getting at least 37.5 pct of votes, that is the score recorded in the European Parliament elections.

The Prime Minister and national leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Victor Ponta on Wednesday evening stated that the new political entity to result form a merger of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) will have Traian Basescu as its new leader, after this autumn's presidential election.

The People's Movement Party (PMP) has signed the 'Commitment to Fight Corruption', which stipulates the modification of the regulations of the Deputies Chamber and the Senate, so that the voting on lifting parliamentary immunity to be made in full sight, by using the electronic system, according to a release on Wednesday sent to AGERPRES by Romanian Coalition for Fighting Corrupti

The People's Movement Party (PMP) President Elena Udrea says that the party she leads will back the variant of a single candidate of the Right in the presidential elections, if the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) and the National Liberal Party (PNL) back the PMP candidate Cristian Diaconescu.

Elena Udrea on Saturday was elected chairwoman of the People's Movement Party (PMP) at the ongoing PMP Congress at Parliament Palace in Bucharest, securing 742 votes in her favour, with her opponent Daniel Funeriu receiving only 209 votes.

For the People's Movement Party (PMP), the result garnered in the European Parliament elections on Sunday is a victory, said deputy Elena Udrea at the headquarters of the formation after the first exit-polls.