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[1] [2] [3] A second round was due to be held on 8 December 2024 as no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first round. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 3 ] However, on 6 December 2024 the Constitutional Court annulled the election, alleging that a Russian influence operation had impacted the vote.
Local elections were held in Romania on 9 June 2024. They were the eighth post-1989 local elections in the country. The previous Romanian local elections in 2020 were won by the National Liberal Party (PNL), even though the Social Democratic Party (PSD) came in with significantly more County Council Presidents and mayors than the National Liberals.
In the last European parliamentary elections, in 2019, PSD obtained 9 mandates. It was the weakest electoral result recorded by the PSD in its entire European Parliament electoral history, largely based on the soft eurosceptic and nationalist rhetoric [2] that the party adopted during the leadership of Liviu Dragnea, the constant, brutal weakening of the rule of law, and the encouragement of ...
The party was founded in November 2021 by Maricel Viziteu and Adeluța and Gabriel Gib, the latter being a former member of the Romanian Socialist Party (PSR). [2] It became known on the Romanian political landscape in May 2022 after senator Diana Șoșoacă, elected on the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) list, joined the party and later became its leader.
2 At the time of the election there was an ongoing dispute between Corneliu Vadim Tudor and Gheorghe Funar as to who is the legitimate leader of the Greater Romania Party. Because Corneliu Vadim Tudor appeared as the leader of the party in the Register of Political Parties kept at the Bucharest Tribunal, Gheorghe Funar ran as an independent.
On 2 February 2014, the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia held two referendums on European integration. In one, 98.4% voted in favour of joining the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia, while in the second 97.2% opposed further integration with the EU. 98.9% of voters also supported the proposition that Gagauzia could declare independence if Moldova unified with Romania. [15]
Sector 3 (Romanian: Sectorul 3) is an administrative unit of Bucharest. It is the most populous , most densely populated and also the third-largest division of the city. With a total population of over 460 thousand, it is actually the second-most populated administrative area of Romania, only after the capital city. [ 1 ]
According to the official final results, the centre-left Alliance PSD+PC won 33.1% in the Chamber of Deputies, just ahead of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) on 32.4%, with the National Liberal Party (PNL) on 18.6% and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ) on 6.2%.