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• Nov 23, 2009: Romania: BEC: Referendum turnout at 46.75pct (Roumanie.com , 2009)
• Nov 23, 2009: Foreign Affairs ministry: 94,000 Romanian citizens voted abroad (Hot News, 2009)
• Nov 23, 2009: Runoff to wrap up Romania elections (Aljazeera, 2009)
• Nov 23, 2009: Antonescu key to 2nd round of Romania presidential vote (Business new Europe, 2009)
• Nov 19, 2009: Romania: elections, crisis, democracy. About to get worse? (Observatorio Balcani e Caucaso, 2009) Interview with Mircea Kivu, expert on political and social issues
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• Nov 14, 2009: Post-election scenarios seen key to winning electors’ vote in presidential polls (Financiarul.ro Post-election scenarios seem to play an important role in determining voters' decision on the 22nd November.
• Nov 14, 2009: Romania's Basescu considers early general elections (SETimes.com, 2009)
• Nov 14, 2009: Romania: Press review - November 11 (Romania press, 2009) Summary of the week's happening - just before the elections.
• Nov 06, 2009: Basescu wants new government before presidential election (Romanian Times, 2009)
• Nov 04, 2009: Romania's Parliament Blocks New Government (The Wall Street Journal, 2009)
• Oct 30, 2009: New measures regarding the November 22 elections and referendum (Financiarul.ro 2009) A referendum will be held in Romania in the same time as the Presidential elections.
• Oct 30, 2009: Electoral campaign for Romania presidential elections starts (Hot News, 2009) 23rd October was the first day of the electoral campaign of the presidential elections. Who are the candidates?
• Oct 14, 2009: Coalition Government Collapses in Romania (New York Times, 2009)
• Dec 02, 2008: Romania Election Results Show Prospect of Tough Coalition Negotiations, Novinite (2008) The article shows results of the November 30 Parliamentary elections, based on over 99% of the vote counted.
• Dec 01, 2008: Romanian election neck-and-neck, BBC (2008) With 71% of the vote counted, Romania's centrist Liberal Democrats and leftist Social Democrats are running neck-and-neck in general election. This article presents partial results of recent elections.
• Nov 24, 2008: Election campaign news, Nine O'Clock (2008) Under this link you can read the latest news of the Romanian 2008 parliamentary election campaign.
• Nov 24, 2008: One week ahead of elections, unusual alliances are shaping, Nine O'Clock (2008) In this article you can read about those speculations that are mounting as to what alliances the main parties in the race are seeking in one week ahead of the parliamentary elections.
• Oct 27, 2008: Romania local elections campaign brings about innovative vote-grabbing techniques, Hot News.ro (2008) Two weeks after the electoral campaign officially started for Romanian local elections due on June 1, candidates were using every method they could think of to attract votes.
• Jun 23, 2008: Bucharest elects its first independent mayor, SET.com (2008) Independent Sorin Oprescu won Bucharest's mayoral runoff on Sunday (June 15th), beating Liberal Democrat Vasile Blaga by 57% to 43%, according to the Municipal Electoral Bureau (BEM).
• Jun 18, 2008: Romania village elects dead mayor, BBC (2008) Romanian villagers have voted to re-elect a dead man as their mayor, to prevent his living rival winning.
• Jun 04, 2008: Romania’s Big Parties Draw in Local Polls, Balkaninsight.com (2008) Romania's two biggest parties have finished neck-and-neck after nationwide local elections.
• May 26, 2008: Romania local elections campaign brings about innovative vote-grabbing techniques, Hot news.ro (2008) Two weeks after the electoral campaign officially started for Romanian local elections due on June 1, candidates were using every method they could think of to attract votes.
• May 26, 2008: Romania starts local elections campaign, Sofia echo.com (2008) The campaign for local elections in Romania was officially launched on May 2.
• May 26, 2008: Official Local Election Candidate Registration Has Been Concluded, See Europe Net (2008) Candidates at local elections swarmed to county electoral offices on the deadline date for submitting their candidacies.
• May 26, 2008: Romania's Government Calls Local Elections for June 1, SeeNews (2008) Romania's Government Calls Local Elections for June 1
• May 26, 2008: Elections in Romania cost 66 mln lei, New Europe (2008) The Romanian government voted on allocating 66 million Romanian Lei for the organisation and running of the local elections to be held in June 2008.
• May 23, 2008: Basescu signs decree for choice on single voting system, NewEurope (2007) Romanian President Traian Basescu signed a decree on October 23 after a day of consultations with his advisers, over the question Romanians are being called to answer at the Referendum.
• May 23, 2008: Uninominal vote: President wants to have the final say, Nine o'clock (2007) Just one hour after PM Tariceanu held his speech in the Parliament for the assumption of responsibility on the uninominal vote, President Traian Basescu announced he won’t promulgate it.
• May 23, 2008: Two voting processes to be held in separate stations, NewEurope (2007) Romania’s government recently made the decision that the two voting processes will be held in separate ballot stations, in spite of a request by the president to have unique voting stations for both elections, in order to cut down expenses, Nine o’clock reported on November 1.
• May 23, 2008: Opposition wins EU elections in Romania, EurAktiv (2007) Romania's centre-right opposition, the Democratic Party, won the country's first ever European elections, according to initial results published on Monday.
• May 23, 2008: Poor turnout mars Romanian Euro-MPs election and referendum - Summary, Earthtimes.org (2007) An article about the Sunday European Parliament elections and Referendum in Romania.
• May 23, 2008: Romanian nationalists defeated in EU assembly vote, EUobserver (2007) An article about the EP elections in Romania took place on Sunday.
• May 23, 2008: Low voter turnout invalidates EP election results, New Europe (2007) The Central Electoral Office (BEC) announced on November 27 the final results and data for the first European elections and a referendum on changes to the voting system that took place in Romania on November 25.
• May 23, 2008: Debacle for Prime Minister in first EU elections in Romania, Wien International (2007) Parties close to President Trajan Basescu were the winners of the first elections to the European parliament in Romania at the end of November 2007. The National Liberal Party (PNL) of Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu suffered a crushing defeat. However, an electoral reform proposed by Mr Basescu failed to win voters' support in a referendum held simultaneously with the elections.