{"id":884446,"date":"2025-05-04T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=884446"},"modified":"2025-05-04T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:36:34","slug":"romania-votes-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/romania-votes-update-id884446.html","title":{"rendered":"Romania Votes Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>VOTE <\/strong>Voter turnout in the first round of Romania\u2019s presidential election today has so far been beyond expectations, with 3.5 million until twelve o\u2019clock, which accounts for 20% of the total number of voters on constituency lists, says the latest data released by the Permanent Election Authority (AEP). 500 thousand individuals cast their ballots abroad until that hour. Most of the votes have been registered in Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain and France. After casting his ballot, Romania\u2019s interim president, Ilie Bolojan, talked about the importance of the presidential election for Romania. He recalled that internally, the head of state will have to collaborate with the Parliament majority and government to reform the state and create development opportunities for the Romanians. At the same time, Bolojan went on to say, the country\u2019s president is going to provide the major directions of Romania\u2019s foreign and defence policies, as the country\u2019s security depends on that. Bolojan has urged the Romanians to go to the polls irrespective of their political preferences. \u201cThe Romanians are going to do their best in this election round, and I am glad we are having such a good number of voters in the Diaspora and I am firmly convinced this number will be even greater with the voters here in Romania,\u201d the country\u2019s Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, says while leaving a polling station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOTE Voter turnout in the first round of Romania\u2019s presidential election today has so far been beyond expectations, with 3.5 million until twelve o\u2019clock, which accounts for 20% of the total number of voters on constituency lists, says the latest data released by the Permanent Election Authority (AEP). 500 thousand individuals cast their ballots abroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":801299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"coauthors":[113279],"class_list":["post-884446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsflash"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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