The leftist alliance made up of the Social-Democratic Party, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the Conservatives, which also has the government majority in Bucharest got the largest number of votes in the EU Parliamentary election held in Romania on Sunday, between 41 and 43% of the votes, according to the exit polls made public upon the closing of the polling booths. Next came the center-to-right parties, the National Liberals, who got between 13 and 15% of the votes, the Democrat Liberals between 11 and 12% of the votes and the pro-presidential People Movement\u2019s Party between 6 and 7% of the votes. The Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, part of the ruling coalition has mustered between 6 and 7% of the votes, while independent candidate Mircea Diaconu obtained between 4 and 5%. Social-Democrat leader Victor Ponta said the result obtained was a special one adding that he would propose the National Liberals to rebuild the Social-Liberal Union, the alliance, which won the Parliamentary election of 2012, but later fell apart due to intestine fights. Romania will have 32 MEPs and the turnout on Sunday was 32.16 %. The EU parliamentary election ended in all 28 EU countries on Sunday night. According to EU Parliament estimates voter turnout across the EU stood at 43.11%, and the results show that the European People\u2019s Party is likely to get 211 MEP seats, the Socialists 193, the Liberals 74 while 58 seats are for the Greens. The Conservatives and the Euro-skeptics reformists would get 39 MEP seats.<\/p>\n
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