Satu Mare

Colleagues at the Autonet Satu Mare (northwestern Romania) Company welcomed biker Emanuel 'Mani' Gyenes with a cake after his victory in the marathon class of the 2015 Dakar Rally; the company was also his sponsor.

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Mani briefly related his fifth participation in this competition.

Romanian Ana-Maria Branza won the women's title and Italian Edoardo Munzone the men's in the fourth edition of the Alfredo Bachelli individual epee trophy gathering 100 athletes in the Sports Hall of Craiova (southern Romania) on Saturday, the Romanian Fencing Federation announced.

The candidate in the November 16 presidential runoff election of the alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC) Victor Ponta believes the decision of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) to let the ethnic Hungarian voters vote as they see fit is excellent.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta voiced appreciation on Monday for the fact that the PSD-UNPR-PC electoral alliance has managed to win in the parliamentary by-election "in constituencies that were not PSD's", but showed his disappointment over the fact that Gabriela Szabo, the alliance's candidate in the Ilfov constituency, has not won an MP seat.