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Romanian Social Democrat Leader Calls For Talks On Future Govt ASAP

15:33, 02 Dec. 2008
Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana addressed Tuesday an invitation to leaders of all political parties that made parliament to start talks and form a government as soon as possible.

Over 400 Turceni Employees Might Meet Retirement Conditions By 2015

15:02, 02 Dec. 2008
The Gorj County Pension House will analyze 421 files of employees at Romanian state-run thermal power producer Turceni meeting retirement conditions by 2015, so that the company would be able to set up a proper medium term human resources policy, the plant’s representatives said Tuesday.

Romanian Red Cross Organizes World Aids Day Actions In Bucharest

15:01, 02 Dec. 2008
The Red Cross organized Tuesday in Universitatii Square in central Bucharest several actions to mark World AIDS Day, with the main message that the illness is not caught at work or at school and those who carry it must not be discriminated.

Democrat Liberals Gained 17 Lawmaker Seats In Bucharest, Social Democrats Got 14, Liberals 7

14:54, 02 Dec. 2008
The head of the Bucharest Election Office, Alin Visan, said Tuesday that democrat liberals got 12 deputy and five senator seats in Bucharest, the social democrat and conservative alliance got 12 deputy and five senator seats, while liberals got five deputy and two senator seats.

Romanian Liberals Ready To Be In Opposition If Tariceanu Isn’t PM – Official

13:54, 02 Dec. 2008
Romanian liberals’ campaign manager Bogdan Oltean said Tuesday that the Liberal Party, which came in third in the parliamentary polls Sunday, continues to back the idea of a government headed by Calin Tariceanu and will not hesitate to be in opposition otherwise.

Romania’s Forex Reserves Dn EUR90M In Nov To EUR27.23B

13:23, 02 Dec. 2008
Romania’s foreign exchange reserves decreased by EUR90 million in November to a total of EUR27.228 billion, the central bank said in a statement Tuesday.

Final Results: Four Parties And Minorities To Make Up Romanian Parliament

13:19, 02 Dec. 2008
Romania’s Central Election Office announced Tuesday the final result of the parliamentary election held Sunday and the country’s new Parliament will be formed of the social democrat and conservative alliance, democrat liberals, liberals, the Hungarian minority party and representatives of other national minorities.

Romanian Democrat Liberals Mainly Consider Majority With Liberals – Party Leader

12:43, 02 Dec. 2008
Romania’s Democratic Liberal Party leader Emil Boc said Tuesday the party’s main choice to form a majority in Parliament is the Liberal Party, but that is not the only option.

Car Mkr Renault Ponders New Logan Generation

12:36, 02 Dec. 2008
The new generation of Romanian Dacia Logan cars, which will replace the current model, will be chosen early next year by the leaders of the Renault group Renault, from two possible variants. The car will be marketed in 2010, at the earliest, or 2012, according to RTR manager Philippe Prevel.

Romania’s RTR Center To Continue Invest, Employments Despite Intl Fincl Crisis

12:27, 02 Dec. 2008
Renault Technologie Roumanie center, a unit of French Renault group, will complete its investments in the auto-testing unit in the southern Romanian Dambovita county in 2009, and will continue hiring notwithstanding the international financial crisis already affecting the auto sector.

Romanian Pensioners Queued All Night For Spa Tickets

11:57, 02 Dec. 2008
Hundreds of Romanian pensioners queued since Monday night in front of the Pension House in Craiova, southern Romania, and in Cluj, northwestern Romania, in order to submit applications for tickets to spa resorts for next year.

Romanian Social Democrats To Negotiate Will All Parties To Form Majority – Official

11:44, 02 Dec. 2008
Romanian social democrats, who won parliamentary elections Sunday, will discuss with all other parties with high scores to negotiate a majority in parliament and form the future government, the party’s national council president Adrian Nastase said Tuesday.

Romanian Social Democrats Win Elections, Followed Closely By Liberal Democrats

10:15, 02 Dec. 2008
Romanian social democrats gained 33.09% of votes for the Chamber of Deputies, followed by democrat liberals with 32.36%, liberals with 18.57%, the Central Election Office said Tuesday morning after the counting of all ballots cast countrywide in the parliamentary election held Sunday.

Record Attendance At Presidential National Day Reception

20:56, 01 Dec. 2008
The Romanian head of state organized, Monday evening, the usual annual National Day reception, but this year the attendance was higher than in previous years.

Romanian Pres Decorates Cultural, Academic Personalities

20:05, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian President Traian Basescu granted decorations to several Romanian artistic and academic personalities including Radu Beligan, Nicolae Manolescu, Lucian Pintilie, Gheorghe Dinica and Marin Moraru.

Fin Min: Romania Needs To Cut Curr Acct Def For Higher Ratings

19:51, 01 Dec. 2008
Romania needs prudent revenue, monetary and fiscal policies to permit a gradual and predictable cut of the current account deficit to a level that can be sustained by direct capital investments, in order to regain rating agencies' confidence, according to a Finance Ministry document.

Romanian Democrat Leaders To Start Negotiations With the Liberals Tuesday – Sources

19:45, 01 Dec. 2008
The leaders of the Romanian Democratic Liberal Party wish to have a meeting with the leaders of the National Liberal Party, to negotiate the creation of a Parliament majority that would form the next Government, democrat liberal sources told MEDIAFAX.

Bucharest City Electoral Office Concludes The Counting Of Votes

19:23, 01 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest City Electoral Office concluded the centralization of votes in the 1,181 polling stations in Bucharest, with the results revealing that the democrat liberals obtained most votes among Bucharest citizens.

Romanian Anti-Communist Hero Refuses Decoration From Pres

19:11, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian anti-communism fighter Vasile Paraschiv refused Monday the Star of Romania in the rank of Knight offered to him by President Traian Basescu, mentioning that he refuses to receive it "from a communist just like all those who ran the country since the Revolution."

Bucharest Electoral Office Concludes Senate Votes Count

18:41, 01 Dec. 2008
The final results in the elections for the Senate, announced Monday at 1600 GMT by the Bucharest Electoral Office, revealed that Ecaterina Andronescu (PSD+PC) obtained 48.82% of votes, Cristian Radulescu (PDL) 48.32%, and Dan Voiculescu 44.88%.

The Romanian Democrat Liberals Won The Elections – Party VP

18:34, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian democrat liberal vice president Adriean Videanu said Monday that the democrat liberals won the Parliament elections, as they obtained the most mandates in the Chamber and Senate, namely 165, compared to the 163 mandates obtained by the social democrat-conservative alliance.

Bucharest Electoral Office Concludes Vote Count

18:25, 01 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest City Electoral Office concluded the counting of votes in the 1,181 polling stations in the city, with the results revealing that the democrat liberals obtained most of the votes in the Chamber as well as in the Senate.

Romania’s New Govt Needs To Be Formed Quickly – Econ Analysts

17:41, 01 Dec. 2008
The new Romanian government has to be formed as soon as possible to eliminate some of the uncertainty, and it needs a solid majority into the Parliament, so that "less pleasant" actions to be taken in the “very tough times” to follow, economic analysts said Monday.

Bucharest Electoral Office Concludes Vote Count For Chamber

17:38, 01 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest City Electoral Office concluded Monday, at 1500 GMT, the centralization of votes in the 1.181 polling stations. Thus, the democrat liberals obtained most of the votes in Bucharest for the Chamber, followed by the alliance formed of the social democrats and the conservatives.

Romania Will Remain In Iraq As Long As The Allies Do – Romanian Pres

17:01, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian president Traian Basescu said Monday that Romania will continue its actions in Iraq until 2011 or until the allies leave this country, adding that "this should clarify any political debate on this matter."

Over 400 Employees In Turceni Pwr Plant Might Be Pensioned Off

16:53, 01 Dec. 2008
Over 400 employees of Romanian state-run thermal power producer Turceni, or almost 11% of the personnel, might be pensioned off, the company asking the Pension House in the southern county of Gorj to analyze if the people fulfill the necessary retirement criteria.

Romanian Democrat Liberals Get Most Of The Votes Expressed Abroad

16:33, 01 Dec. 2008
The Romanian democrat liberals obtained 46.88% of votes expressed by Romanians abroad, for Senate, followed by the liberals, with 23.35% and the social democrats, with 13.19%, while for the Chamber the democrat liberals obtained 46.6%, PNL – 20.45% and PSD+PC – 14.82%, after counting 93.21% of votes

Democrat Liberals Will Narrowly Win The Elections – Party Leader

15:37, 01 Dec. 2008
The Romanian democrat liberals will “narrowly” win the Parliament elections against the social democrats, as the votes of Romanians abroad will make the difference, democrat liberal leader Emil Boc said Monday.

Romanian Social Democrat Head To Spearhead Parliament Majority Negotiations

15:31, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian Social Democratic Party president Mircea Geoana said Monday after an informal meeting with the party leaders that, in accordance with his mandate, he will be the one to “spearhead” talks with the other Parliament parties in view of forming a Parliament majority.

Four Romanians, Three Bulgarians Arrested For Bank Fraud In Greece

15:04, 01 Dec. 2008
Four Romanians and three Bulgarians were arrested in Greece, as they were carrying a large number of fake credit cards, clones of original ones, copied by "skimming." They were active in England and in Athens, Ana-mpa.gr informed.

Why did Romanians give a new mandate to people we know bad things about? – Romanian president

14:45, 01 Dec. 2008
Speaking about Sunday’s vote, Romanian President Traian Basescu asked rhetorically in an interview broadcast Monday by the public radio RRA why would Romanians choose to give a new mandate to a party they know is tainted.

Bucharest Election Office Centralized 99.83% Of Votes In Capital City

14:21, 01 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Election Office said Monday it centralized votes in 1.179 polling stations out of a total 1,181 in the capital city by GMT 1200, and 99.83% of the ballots have been counted.

Partial Results: Social Democrats-33.99%, Democrat Liberals-33.79%, Liberals-18.49% For Senate

14:16, 01 Dec. 2008
Romania’s alliance between social democrats and conservatives obtained 33.99% of voters’ preferences for the Senate, followed by the Democratic Liberal Party with 33.79% and liberals with 18.49%, following the counting of votes in 92.73% of polling stations countrywide by GMT 1200.

Partial Results:Social Democrats-33%, Democrat Liberals-32.57%, Liberals-18.32% For Chamber

14:14, 01 Dec. 2008
Romania’s alliance between social democrats and conservatives obtained 33% of voters’ preferences for the Chamber of Deputies, followed by the Democratic Liberal Party with 32.57% and liberals with 18.32%, following the counting of votes in 92.73% of polling stations countrywide by GMT 1200.

Romania’s Former President Iliescu Doesn’t Believe Poll Results Overturned Before Seeing Final Results

13:02, 01 Dec. 2008
Romania’s former president, social democrat Ion Iliescu said Monday that winning first or second place in elections doesn’t make much a difference for the Social Democratic Party considering a Parliament majority will be formed following negotiations.

Helicopter, Plane National Day Parade Flights Canceled Due To Fog

11:38, 01 Dec. 2008
The flights of IAR Puma Socat helicopters and MIG 21 Lancer planes scheduled during the parade in Bucharest Monday, on Romania’s National Day, have been cancelled because of thick fog in the city.

Romanian Nationalist Parties Didn’t Make Parliament By Results From 71.06% Polling Stations

11:28, 01 Dec. 2008
Romania’s far-right Greater Romania party and the Christian Democrat New Generation Party failed to secure at least 5% of votes countrywide to get seats in the future Parliament, according to results centralized for 71.06 polling stations at GMT 0600.

Democrat Liberals To Go To President With Heads Held High If They Win – Official

10:59, 01 Dec. 2008
Democrat liberal vice-president Theodor Stolojan told MEDIAFAX Monday that democrat liberals will go to President Traian Basescu with heads held high if they win the election, and the president will decide whom to appoint prime minister.

Tables Will Turn At Final Results – Social Democrat President

10:55, 01 Dec. 2008
Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana said Monday the final election results will show the Social Democratic Party in the lead, adding the partial results placing democrat liberals on the top spot takes into account large urban areas where the party doesn’t have a majority.

Bucharest Election Office Centralized 95.51% Of Votes In Capital City

10:31, 01 Dec. 2008
The Bucharest Election Office said it centralized votes in 1,128 polling stations out of a total 1,181 in the capital city by GMT 0800, and 95.51% of the ballots have been counted.