PSD wins highest number of votes in Sunday's parliamentary elections, Liberal PM Ludovic Orban resigns
Elections - The Social Democratic Party - PSD has won Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Romania with 30.17% of the votes for the Senate and 29.79% for the Chamber of Deputies, followed by the National Liberal Party - PNL with 25.36% votes for the Senate and 25.01% for the Chamber of Deputies, the Central Electoral Bureau announced on Monday, after centralizing results from 84.91% of the polling stations. 3rd placed is the Save Romania Union - PLUS Alliance - USR-PLUS with 15.29% of the votes for the Senate and 14.85% for the Chamber of Deputies. The Alliance for Romanians’ Union got 8.50% votes for the Senate and 8.16% for the Chamber of Deputies. There is no outright winner of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, and the centre-right parties total 50% of the votes cast, President Klaus Iohannis stated on Monday. He announced that in the coming days he would call the parliamentary parties for consultations. In another move, the Liberal PM Ludovic Orban has resigned. Romanians in the Diaspora voted over the course of two days, on Saturday and Sunday, the highest voter turnout being reported in Italy, Moldova, Spain, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany and France. The new Parliament will have 465 MPs - 136 Senators and 329 Deputies. Sunday's voter turnout stood at 27% of the total number of voters registered on permanent electoral lists, the lowest in the last 30 years.
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