Romania’s
\ncentrist President Klaus Iohannis easily won a presidential runoff vote on
\nSunday as expected, crushing his socialist challenger, Reuters wrote shortly after the polls closed on Sunday. France Press news agency also referred
\nto the president’s re-election. The right-of-center Paris-based daily Le Figaro writes that Klaus Iohannis
\ngrabbed a good score in the election, while his opponent, Viorica Dancila,
\nsuffered the most stinging defeat for a leftist candidate since the demise of
\ncommunism 30 years ago, which confirms the country’s European track. <\/p>\n
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Also in
\nParis, Le Monde writes that Romanian
\nsociety has prevailed against politicians, referring to the years of civil
\nactions aimed at combating corruption. In the United States, Bloomberg writes that Klaus Iohannis’s campaign
\nslogan, a normal Romania, was meant to secure his re-election, in a country
\nthat has seen years of political instability. Bloomberg also writes that Iohannis triumphed after siding with
\nthe biggest protests since communism in opposing government attempts to
\ndecriminalize low-level corruption. <\/p>\n
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The German media in turn describes Klaus
\nIohannis, a German ethnic himself, as a counterweight to Hungary’s Prime
\nMinister Viktor Orban and to the Polish nationalist party in power, Frankfurter Rundschau writes. Iohannis, La Repubblica also writes, represents the
\nelite and the voters who are determined to consolidate Romania’s EU commitments,
\nto modernize the country and combat the cancer of corruption. In short,
\nRomanian voters have rejected years of scandals and chaos, New York Times writes, referring to the previous Social-Democrat
\nGovernments in Bucharest. <\/p>\n
(Translated by V. Palcu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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