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Post by markgoodair on Nov 2, 2014 6:15:49 GMT
Romania goes to the polls today to elect a new president.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 8:30:13 GMT
Romania uses the same system as France for their presidential elections. The top two candidates will go head to head in a second round on 16 November. The opinion polls are showing two clear front runners, the incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, a Social Democrat; and Klaus Iohannis of the National Liberal Party. Ponta has been leading quite comfortably in most opinion polls.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 8:39:08 GMT
Romania used to be one of those countries that held one-party rubber-stamp general elections of the kind we still see in North Korea - 11 of these were held between 1939 and 1985.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 2, 2014 9:06:35 GMT
They did have something of a minor event taking place in 1989. That could have possibly changed things somewhat?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 9:19:09 GMT
They did have something of a minor event taking place in 1989. That could have possibly changed things somewhat? Yes, I know about these two.  |
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Post by markgoodair on Nov 2, 2014 9:40:28 GMT
Romania uses the same system as France for their presidential elections. The top two candidates will go head to head in a second round on 16 November. The opinion polls are showing two clear front runners, the incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, a Social Democrat; and Klaus Iohannis of the National Liberal Party. Ponta has been leading quite comfortably in most opinion polls. Interestingly Iohannis is an ethnic German. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 2, 2014 10:25:43 GMT
Romania uses the same system as France for their presidential elections. The top two candidates will go head to head in a second round on 16 November. The opinion polls are showing two clear front runners, the incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, a Social Democrat; and Klaus Iohannis of the National Liberal Party. Ponta has been leading quite comfortably in most opinion polls. Interestingly Iohannis is an ethnic German. He is, as interestingly are Herta Mueller and Stefan Hell- fully half of Romania's Nobel Prize laureates. |
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Post by markgoodair on Nov 2, 2014 19:42:56 GMT
Exit poll puts Ponta on 40% and Iohannis on 31%.
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Post by Robert Waller on Nov 2, 2014 21:10:42 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 2, 2014 21:14:37 GMT
blimey, a flipchart........ |
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Post by markgoodair on Nov 17, 2014 14:19:22 GMT
Narrowly won by the German.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 17, 2014 18:27:58 GMT
Praise be. First democratically- elected Germanophone head of state or government outside a German-speaking country?
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Post by right on Nov 17, 2014 19:29:05 GMT
Praise be. First democratically- elected Germanophone head of state or government outside a German-speaking country? Didn't Donald Tusk grow up speaking German rather than Polish? |
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Post by john07 on Nov 17, 2014 23:58:43 GMT
Praise be. First democratically- elected Germanophone head of state or government outside a German-speaking country? Didn't Donald Tusk grow up speaking German rather than Polish? What about Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay. He was elected in 1954. OK he was the only candidate! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 21:53:24 GMT
Didn't Donald Tusk grow up speaking German rather than Polish? What about Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay. He was elected in 1954. OK he was the only candidate! Rudolf Schuster in Slovakia. Donald Tusk grew up speaking Kashubian, which is a Slavic language. |
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