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Bucharest, Oct 7 /Agerpres/ - Until 21:00 hrs, in the referendum for redefining the notion of family 20.41 percent of voters cast their ballots, according to data centralized by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC).

By 16:00hrs, as many as 15.21pct of the Romanian electors have cast their ballots at the referendum for the redefinition of the family, according to the data released by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC).

Attorney General Augustin Lazar said on Tuesday, about a request from the Minister of Justice, Tudorel Toader, for the declassification of protocols concluded between prosecution bodies and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), that the Public Prosecution Service will first conduct a legality analysis, and then make a decision.

Minister of Justice Tudorel Toader announced on Thursday that he will start procedures for removing from office Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi.AGERPRES(RO - author: Mihai Stoica, editor: Georgiana Tanasescu; EN - author: Simona Klodnischi, editor: Maria Voican)

All four Romanian servicemen who were wounded on Thursday in a booby-trap attack in Afghanistan are recovering well and are out of danger; two of them will be transferred to a hospital in Germany for further investigations, the Ministry of National Defence announced on Saturday.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the chair of the Social Democrat Party and presidential candidate, declared that fellow Social Democrat Viorel Hrebenciuc is no longer a deputy, as the Chamber of Deputies acknowledged his resignation. Ponta claimed that the MPs of the opposition Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) 'defend their incompatibles' in the Parliament.