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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS<\/strong> \u2013 Over 18 million Romanian citizens are called to the polls today, to elect their MPs. Almost 6,500 candidates are running for the 466 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The number of MPs will be lower in the future legislature, after Romania relinquished the uninominal vote and returned to the party list system, which was last used during the 2004 elections. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n


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UPDATE (18.00 hours, local time): <\/strong><\/span>The Romanian diaspora will be represented by two
\nsenators and four deputies. The latest data show some 82 thousand Romanians in
\nthe diaspora have already cast their votes. As a first, postal voting has been
\nintroduced for the Romanians living outside the borders of the country. As
\nanother novelty, ballot counting will be video-recorded, and the minutes will
\nbe filled in, in an electronic format, in order to eliminate suspicions of
\nrigging. Eleven hours after the start of the voting, the turnout at national level
\nstood at some 34%. The highest turnout was registered in the southern counties,
\nwhereas the lowest in the west and the north. In Bucharest, which is home to a
\ntenth of the total number of Romanian voters, the turnout stood at over 35%.
\nSince the start of the voting, dozens of complaints and notifications of possible
\ncontraventions and offences related to the electoral process have been
\nregistered at national level, the Romanian Interior Ministry has announced.
\nMost complaints and notifications have been registered in urban areas.
\nAccording to the Interior Ministry, no major incident disturbing public order
\nor the unfolding of the electoral process in good conditions has been reported
\nso far.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>MOURNING<\/strong>-Romania’s President, Klaus Iohannis and the
\nRomanian Foreign Ministry have firmly condemned the double bombing which rocked
\nIstanbul last night and sent a message of condolences to the families of the
\nvictims. Both the Romanian President and the Foreign Ministry reiterated
\nRomania’s commitment to the world efforts to fight terrorism. The US, Great
\nBritain and NATO have also condemned the Istanbul attacks. Turkey has declared
\na day of national mourning after the two attacks, which made 38 victims, mostly
\npolice officers, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey will fight
\nterrorism to the end. The Kurdistan Freedom
\nFalcons (TAK), a radical group linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has
\nclaimed responsibility for the attacks carried out in Istanbul.<\/p>\n


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<\/strong>CORRUPTION<\/strong>– The Bucharest Court on Sunday decided to
\nplace paediatric surgeon Gheorghe Burnei under home arrest. The Head of the
\nPaediatric Surgery and Orthopaedic Clinic at the Marie Curie Hospital in
\nBucharest is accused by the prosecutors of having received money from the
\nparents of the children he has operated on. Burnei had been taken into custody
\non Saturday evening. A celebrity in his field of activity, doctor Burnei is
\nsuspected of acts of corruption, after several parents complained he has requested
\nmoney from them to perform surgeries and he has reportedly made non-homologated
\nexperiments on children. Also on Saturday, the former manager of the Malaxa
\nHospital in Bucharest, doctor Florin Secureanu, was placed in preventive arrest
\nfor 30 days. In one of the most resounding corruption scandals on the Romanian
\nmedical scene, Secureanu is accused of bribe taking and embezzlement in
\ncontinued form. The national anti-corruption prosecutors who investigate the
\ncase claim that, in the May 2009 – November 2016 period, the former manager
\ndesigned and applied a scheme to illegally cash in sums of money from the
\nhospitals’ pay office on a daily basis, bringing a prejudice of some 500
\nthousand Euros. <\/p>\n


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<\/strong>ROME<\/strong>– The Italian President Sergio Mattarella
\nreceived the acting foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni at the Quirinal Palace on
\nSunday and asked him to form a new government, after Matteo Renzi stepped down
\nfollowing the failure of the referendum on the constitutional reform, held on
\nDecember 4, the Italian presidency has announced. Paolo Gentiloni, 62, a close of
\nRenzi’s, will form the cabinet and then will go to Parliament for a vote of
\nconfidence. The Prime Minister designate has mentioned the elimination of the
\neffects produced by the recent quakes in central Italy and the adoption of a
\nnew electoral law, among its top priorities. <\/p>\n


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MACEDONIA<\/strong> \u2013 Early legislative elections, deemed by both the power and the opposition as a referendum on the future of the country, are held in Macedonia today. According to pundits the ballot should put an end to the political crisis started in the spring of 2014, when the Social-Democratic opposition accused the conservative government of rigging the elections. The international community announced it would closely monitor the electoral process in the former Yugoslav republic, and that by holding correct and democratic elections, Macedonia will come closer to the European Union and NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n


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HANDBALL<\/strong> \u2013 Romanias national womens handball team is today facing Hungary, in the first group-stage match of the European Championships, in Sweden. On Saturday evening, the Romanians could not train according to the schedule, because of a fire alert in the sports hall where they were supposed to train. Romania will face the Czech Republic on December 13 and Denmark a day later. In the first stage of the competition, Romania lost 21-23, to the defending European and world champion, Norway, defeated the Olympic champion, Russia, 22-17, and outperformed Croatia, 31-26. Romanias national team is coached by a Spaniard, Ambros Martin, who last month replaced Swedish Tomas Ryde, under whose guidance Romania won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships in Denmark. (Translated by D. Vijeu)<\/p>\n

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