For 48 long days in 2012, Crin Antonescu was Romania’s president. It was only a stand-in role, gained because he was the leader of the Romanian senate, but he emerged a loser, with his image tarnished ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The speaker of Romania’s Senate has resigned before the prime minister could remove him. Liberal Party leader Crin Antonescu announced Tuesday on live television that he was ...

BUCHAREST – Crin Antonescu officially secured backing for the upcoming presidential election during the extraordinary congress of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) on Sunday, ensuring that the liberal ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanians vote on Sunday in a presidential election re-run that could propel ultranationalist George Simion to power, an outcome likely to cause unease in the European Union and ...

Romania's Presidential Race: Simion, Antonescu, and Dan Lead the Charge BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanians voted on Sunday for the first round of a closely contested presidential election. While results ...

„The chances for the elections’ results to be considered invalid are zero”, Traian Basescu’s spokesman for the electoral campaign Sever Voinescu declared. In an interview for RFI, Voinescu said that ...

The atmosphere in Romania in the runup to the first round of the presidential election does not suggest that these are momentous times for the country. Indeed, the general mood is more one of ...

In December, Antonescu temporarily suspended his candidacy, citing a lack of consistent support from the political alliance that had originally nominated him. [EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT] BUCHAREST – National ...

PNL ruling party nominates its candidate for presidential elections [EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT] BUCHAREST – The National Council of the National Liberal Party (PNL), which met in Bucharest on Sunday ...

National Liberal Party (PNL) leader Crin Antonescu announced his resignation as Senate speaker on Tuesday, at the peak of a political conflict with the Social Democrats (PSD), with whom the Liberals ...

Nationalist candidate George Simion won the first round of Romania’s presidential election with some 40% of the vote, according to the preliminary results on Sunday. With 91.2% of votes counted, the ...

BUCHAREST - Romanians voted on Sunday for the first round of a closely contested presidential election. While results are expected later in the evening, exit polls showed George Simion, Crin Antonescu ...