Romania 2008

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Legislative elections to both houses will be held on November 30 in Romania.

The results of last election in the lower house
PSD/Humanist Party 36.8% 132 seats (113 PSD, 19 PUR)
Justice and Truth Alliance (PD and PNL) 31.5% 112 seats (64 PNL, 48 PD)
Greater Romania Party 13.0% 48 seats
UDMR 6.2% 22 seats
Ethnic minorities 16 seats (1 seat each for Roma, German, Armenian, Italians, Bulgarian, Greek, Jews, Lipovenian, Croatians, Albanians, Turco-Islamic Tatars, Ukrainians, Slavonic Macedonians, Serbs, Ruthenians, Turks, Poles, Czech-Slovaks)

In the Senate:
PSD/Humanist Party 37.2% 57 seats
Justice and Truth Alliance (PD and PNL) 31.8% 49 seats
Greater Romania Party 13.6% 21 seats
UDMR 6.1% 10 seats

Current polling (Lower house/Senate)
PSD-PC 32%/32.2%
PDL (PD in 2004) 31.1%/32.1%
PNL 21.3%/20.8%
UDMR 6.3%/5.9%
Greater Romania Party 4.3%/4.2%
PNG 3.2%/3.9%
Others 0.8%/1%
Ethnic minority 0.5%

15.7% will split their ticket House/Senate.

More data here, including regional and age breakdowns.

The PC is the Conservative Party, a ultra-conservative kooky party allied with the Social Democrats (for some weird reason).

Wikipedia has a constituency map, so I assume they switched to MMP as some sources tell me. Other places tell me they've switched to a French two-round system in constituencies. Anybody know the new system, if they did switch?

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Anyone have a program?  Can't tell the players without a program.

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Anyone have a program?  Can't tell the players without a program.

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Tell me who I'm supposed to be rooting for.

None of them. Romanian parties are awfully corrupt. I support the UDMR personally, and I hope the PSD loses. Those guys are the most corrupt.

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Turnout at 14:00 is 19.84%. 22.34% in rural areas, 18.02% in urban areas.

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And at 18:00 now

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Results coming out at 2PM EST (21:00 local time). I won't be here at 2PM, but I'll comment on the results when I do get back.

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PRM has lost all parliamentary representation in both houses, as expected . The Iron Guard PNG-CD have also not won any seat.

Exit Poll:

PSD-PC: 36,5%
PDL: 30,6%
PNL: 20,4%
UDMR: 6,7%

Seats in the House:

PSD-PC: 122
PDL: 102
PNL: 68
UDMR: 22

Seats in the Senate:

PSD-PC: 52
PDL: 45
PNL: 29
UDMR: 11

http://www.antena3.ro/stiri/politica/exit-poll-psd-pc-pdl-pnl-udmr_59109.html

Those poor fools...

What?

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PRM 2.5
Iron Guard 1.7

Senate exit poll sez
PSD+PC 36
PD-L 30.9
PNL 20.2
UDMR 7.3
PRM 2.6
PNG-CD 1.9

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99.62% are counted.

Camera Deputaţilor:

PSD+PC 33.09%
PD-L 32.34%
PNL: 18.57%
UDMR: 6.18%
PRM: 3.15%
PNG-CD: 2.28%

Senat:

PSD+PC 34.12%
PD-L 33.57%
PNL: 18.75%
UDMR: 6.41%
PRM: 3.56%
PNG-CD: 2.53%

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Really very hard to form a coalition now...
Poor Romania... At least, Romania Mare is down.

UDMR will join any coalition as they have done in the past, whether a PSD one or a PNL/PD-L one.

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The UDMR actually won a overseas constituency seat (Africa and the Mideast). The UDMR is made of win.

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They have overseas constituencies?

Seems like it.

Here is a map by county:

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Theodor Stolojan was appointed Prime Minister by Basescu. He will try to form a PDL-PSD coalition.
http://www.lesechos.fr/depeches/monde/afp_00100266-stolojan-designe-premier-ministre-d-une-roumanie-menacee-par-la-crise.htm

Such a coalition could easily win both houses, were they have a huge majority. If the UDMR (as they probably will) joins, then it'd be even larger.

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If anybody is wondering, the PSD and PD-L have formed a coalition, with Emil Boc (PD-L) as Prime Minister.