Romanian Social Democrats Call For Parliament Inquiry Committee To Check Election

Romanian social democrat leader Mircea Geoana said Monday party leaders decided to call for the creation of a Parliament inquiry committee to look into the organization of the presidential election runoff, which incumbent Traian Basescu won at a difference of less than one percentage point.

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Geoana said party leaders made the decision unanimously and the committee is supposed to investigate whether the election was marred by fraud, as social democrats alleged.

The recount of all voided ballots in Romania's presidential election held last Sunday found 2,247 valid ballots, of which 1,260 for incumbent Traian Basescu and 987 for social democrat Mircea Geoana, Romania's Central Electoral Bureau said Monday.

About the recount, Geoana said it was not enough to determine whether the election had been rigged, adding social democrats have also demanded graphology tests on affidavits signed by voters in special polling stations and a comparison of personal identification numbers of voters in special polling stations, to detect multiple voting.

Romania's Constitutional Court Friday ordered a recount of the nearly 140,000 null votes in the election following the Social Democratic Party's claim that the poll was tainted by fraud, after their candidate Geoana lost the vote to incumbent Basescu at a difference of some 70,000 ballots.

The Constitutional Court has yet to rule whether to validate the election or order a rerun, as social democrats demanded.

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