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BUCHAREST, Romania – Polls at the ballot box published in Romania on Sunday after the end of voting in the country’s municipal elections indicated that the balance of forces in the member states of the European Union is expected to replace in the next general election scheduled for 6 December.
Approximately 19 million registered voters elected local officials, councillors and mayors to fill more than 43,000 positions across the country in the election, a review of the upcoming general election.
No official effects were expected until Monday, but the Liberal National Party of Centroderecha, or LNP, which controls Romania’s minority government since last October, gave the positive impression after the polls announced the victory of the supporting candidate. the capital, Bucharest.
Prime Minister Ludovic Orban went a step further, called the election “historic” and told local media that the LNP had won “a transparent victory” over the left-wing Social Democratic Party, known as PSD, for the first time in 30 years.
The PSD remains the most powerful party in the Romanian parliament, despite the loss of its ruling majority. It was in force until last fall, when his government, led by Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, lost a vote of confidence in parliament amid major protests and a strong complaint from Brussels over his attacks on the judiciary and its widespread corruption.
Then, in the country’s presidential election in November, Dancila suffered a crushing defeat to former LNP leader Klaus Iohannis.
However, the DSP recently gave the impression of recovering some of the popular loss while the minority government struggled to involve the economic benefits of the coronavirus pandemic by restricting social spending.
Even before the pandemic, Romania suffered widespread poverty with more than 25% of the population living on less than $5. 50 a day. In August, its government budget deficit reached 4. 7% of gross domestic product compared to 1. 71% in the government was the last time. Year.
Last week, however, the PSD succeeded in approving a movement in Parliament to increase all state pensions by 40%, ignoring the country’s central bank’s warnings that this is unworkable.
PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu acknowledged the electoral loss of his outgoing Bucharest primary, Gabriela Firea.
However, Ciolacu told local media that “vote counting is the most productive exit poll,” insisting that psd is “doing well” in the country.
Vadim Ghirda, The Associated Press