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Romanian presidential elections 2009, who will win?
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Background: Presidential elections will be held in Romania on 22 November and 6 December 2009.
Currently the government is a coalition between the two major parties PDL (Conservatives) and PSD (Socialists). The two parties are almost tied in polls (around 30%) as they were at the last elections (parliamentary, European parliament), followed by the Liberals with a solid 20%.
The main competitors for presidentials (5 years mandate) are the current president Traian Basescu (Conservatives), Mircea Geoana (Socialists) and Crin Antonescu (Liberals). A surprise candidature is that of the Mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, who upset the candidates of the three parties at the recent local elections (in June 2008). However his endeavour will be a lot more difficult now (somewhat like winning the Europa League against winning the Champions League).
Anything can happen and it will depend on who will qualify for the second round of December 6th.
Currently the government is a coalition between the two major parties PDL (Conservatives) and PSD (Socialists). The two parties are almost tied in polls (around 30%) as they were at the last elections (parliamentary, European parliament), followed by the Liberals with a solid 20%.
The main competitors for presidentials (5 years mandate) are the current president Traian Basescu (Conservatives), Mircea Geoana (Socialists) and Crin Antonescu (Liberals). A surprise candidature is that of the Mayor of Bucharest, Sorin Oprescu, who upset the candidates of the three parties at the recent local elections (in June 2008). However his endeavour will be a lot more difficult now (somewhat like winning the Europa League against winning the Champions League).
Anything can happen and it will depend on who will qualify for the second round of December 6th.
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source.
| Traian Basescu |
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| Mircea Geoana |
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| Crin Antonescu |
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| Sorin Oprescu |
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| Other |
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Initial likelihoods: Traian Basescu: 35%, Mircea Geoana: 30%, Crin Antonescu: 20%, Sorin Oprescu: 10%, Other: 5%
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The polls for presidential elections still show Basescu (Conservatives) at 30-35%, Geoana (Socialists) at 20-30%, Antonescu (Liberals) at 15-20%, Oprescu (Independent) at 10%, Vadim (Nationalists) at 5-10%. Becali (Nationalists), one of the richest businessman in Romania and the owner of Steaua Bucharest (football/soccer team) - the most popular soccer club, also announced he will candidate but he is growing unpopular with Steaua fans lately. He should be a competitor to Vadim for Nationalists votes, as they both successfully candidated for the European Parliament in May this year.
The participation of Oprescu in the race takes some votes from Socialists, where he departed from, but he managed to take votes from other parties as well when he candidated as Mayor of Bucharest as he will probably do this time as well.
Basescu and Oprescu have not formally announced there candidature but it is expected they will do this soon.
The most recent poll shows Basescu (34%), Antonescu (19%), Geoana (18%), Oprescu (12%), Becali (8%), Vadim (7%). This is the first poll that was made public that took into account Oprescu and Becali as candidates.
Other interesting findings are that 64% think the country is going into the wrong direction, a growing percentage from previous polls. Also there is a growing interest in elections (66%) and the intention to participate to vote (47%).
The data should be taken as indicative, they were ordered by Liberals. It is a poll battle also between the major parties, as it is in all other countries.
http://www.politico.ro/files/CCSB-2009-09-Sondaj-Politico.ro.pdf
Anything could happen depending on who will be the two candidates that will qualify for the second round. At this point Basescu sems to be one of them but his support diminished during the past months, and only Ion Iliescu in 1992 managed to win a second consecutive term as President of Romania.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/romanian-socialists-quit-coalition-government/article-185987
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091003/tpl-romania-president-to-run-for-second-ee974b3.html
http://euobserver.com/9/28820
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