Financiarul

Incumbent President Traian Basescu, who is backed by the Democratic Liberal Party in the presidential election got 32.44 percent of the vote, Social Democratic Party leader Mircea Geoana polled 31.15 percent and National Liberal Party president Crin Antonescu scored 20.02 percent of the vote for Romania’s president cast on Nov. 22, show preliminary final results released by the Central Election Bureau (BEC) on Wednesday.

Greater Romania Party (PRM) leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor got 5.56 percent of the vote, while the candidate of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor scored 3.83 percent.
Sorin Oprescu polled 3.18 percent of the vote, George Becali got 1.91 percent, Remus Cernea – 0.62 percent, Constantin Rotaru – 0.44 percent, Gheorghe Eduard Manole – 0.35 percent, Ovidiu Iane – 0.23 percent and Constantin Ninel Potirca – 0.21 percent, the Bureau announced.

According to the election authority, the total number of the voters listed on the permanent rolls was 18,293,277, of whom 9,946,748 voters cast a ballot (54.37 percent).
There were 9,718,840 valid ballots cast or 97.70 percent, while the cancelled votes totalled 227,446 or 2.28 percent. These figures were supplied by the BEC after centralising all the electronic reports sent by the county electoral bureaus.

The Bureau is awaiting to receive the documents from all such county bureaus before it confirms the results; the documents are expected later in the day. BEC spokesman Marian Muhulet announced the authority still has to receive reports from 15 counties, with the last one being scheduled for 4 p.m.
“A news conference for the release of the final results confirmed after the BEC receives all the reports centralised by the electoral constituency bureaus will be held after it gets the last report, Thursday most likely,” Muhulet told. Also on Thursday, the documents will be submitted the Constitutional Court for the validation of the presidential elections, first round.