{"id":103931,"date":"2019-11-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/21-november-2019-103931.html"},"modified":"2024-02-15T20:37:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:37:48","slug":"21-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/21-november-2019-id103931.html","title":{"rendered":"21 November, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Elections.<\/strong> The election campaign ahead of the second round of Romania’s
\npresidential elections on Sunday continues until Saturday morning at 7 am local
\ntime. The incumbent president Klaus Iohannis, who is endorsed by the National
\nLiberal Party, now in power, is facing the former Social Democrat prime
\nminister Viorica Dancila. According to the Permanent Election Authority, the
\ntotal number of registered voters is 18,217,411. In
\nthe first round, which saw 14 candidates in the race, Iohannis won almost 38%
\nof the votes and Dancila a little over 22%. Voter turnout stood at 51.19%. In
\nthe diaspora, where voting took place over three days, a record turnout was
\nreported, with 675,000 people casting their ballots. The second round of voting
\nis also taking place over three days abroad: on Friday between 12 am and 9 pm
\nand on Saturday and Sunday between 7 am and 9 pm, with the possibility for the
\nvoting to be extended until midnight. The foreign ministry has already distributed
\nthe materials needed for the voting process abroad. 4,608,1754 ballots
\nwere distributed among the 835 polling stations set up abroad, 100,000 more
\nballots than was requested in the first round. <\/p>\n

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USR.<\/strong> 75% of the members of the Save Romania Union, the third largest
\nparty in Parliament, want Dan Barna to remain president of the party, according
\nto the results of an online ballot, the remaining 25% wanting him to resign.
\nBarna said previously he was ready to hand in his resignation, following
\ndisappointment over his performance in the presidential elections, when he
\nfailed to reach the second round. Barna got 15% of the votes, which is below
\nthe result of the USR-PLUS alliance in the European elections last May, where
\nthey won 22% of the vote. <\/p>\n

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NATO.<\/strong> The Romanian foreign minister Bogdan Aurescu told a NATO ministerial
\nmeeting in Brussels that Romania does not share the view that the Alliance is
\nin crisis and underlined that NATO’s adjustment process should continue. At the
\nend of the meeting, NATO secretary general Jens
\nStoltenberg reiterated that NATO remains the ultimate guarantee of European and
\ntransatlantic security. On the sidelines of the meeting, Bogdan Aurescu also
\nhad talks with the US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, saying Romania will
\ncontinue to take part in foreign military missions and allocate 2% of GDP
\nspending to defence and give priority to putting into practice the two
\nmemoranda signed recently by the two sides on cooperation in the civilian nuclear field and that of 5G infrastructure. The Romanian minister also had talks with his
\ncounterparts from France, Croatia, Estonia and Norway. <\/p>\n

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Fair.<\/strong> The 26th edition of the
\nGaudeamus Book Fair organised by Radio Romania is under way in Bucharest. Today’s
\nprogramme features book launches and talks with writers, historians and experts
\nfrom various fields, as well as debates on topics such as contemporary poetry
\nin various interpretations and writers who opposed dictatorships. 900 different
\nevents are scheduled over the five days of the fair and 230 exhibitors are showcasing
\ntheir products, from very diverse fields. This year’s edition of the fair is
\ndedicated to the 30th anniversary of the anti-communist revolution
\nof December 1989. The poet Mircea Dinescu and the actor Ion Caramitru, who were
\nprominent figures of the revolution, are honorary co-presidents of the fair. <\/p>\n

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Handball.<\/strong> The Romanian men’s handball side Dinamo Bucharest have theoretically
\nwon Champions League Group D after defeating the Russian side Chekhovskie
\nMedvedi 34-23 at home on Wednesday night. Dinamo, who had already booked their
\ntickets for the League play-offs, have 15 points and are followed by the Polish
\nside Orlen Wisla Plock and the Danish side GOG Gudme, with 9 points each. In their
\nfinal group match, Dinamo are facing Gudme away on the 1st of
\nDecember. We recall that in women’s handball, both the Romanian champions SCM
\nRamnicu Valcea and the vice-champions CSM Bucharest have advanced to the Champions
\nLeague main round, with matches scheduled to take place at the start of next
\nyear. <\/p>\n

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