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| ROMANIA HAS ELECTED ITS PRESIDENT 08/12/2009 |
| (2009-12-08) |
| Last updated: 2009-12-09 15:21 EET |
According to the Central Electoral Bureau, after Sunday’s second round of voting, Traian Basescu, the incumbent president and the de facto leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party remains the president of Romania for another 5 year term in office. He got 50.33% of the votes, having less than 1% lead over his challenger, the Social Democrat president of the Senate, Mircea Geoana, who got only 49.66% of the votes. He benefited from the support of the whole parliamentary and non-parliamentary opposition and of the most influential media companies.
More than 10 million people, that is almost 60%, turned out to vote, the difference between the two candidates, the smallest since 1990, being 67 thousand votes. Sociologists say Basescu owes those votes to the Romanians in the Diaspora. From the neighbouring Republic of Moldova to the US or Australia, via Italy and Spain, Romanian citizens voted in unprecedented large numbers for Basescu. That is why Basescu expressed special thanks to them and also to all his voters:
“First of all, let meI thank all those who voted for me and also those who did not vote for me but for Mircea Geoana. For me they are all Romanians and, as president, I’ll treat them equally.”
But for the Romanians in the Social Democratic Party, Basescu is not yet president. The socialists accuse what they call the illegal practices of the Liberal Democratic Party campaign staff. Multiple voting, buying votes as well as the precarious organisation of the voting abroad are the arguments brought by the Social Democrats who decided to challenge the result of the election at the Constitutional Court. Mircea Geoana:
“Our decision to challenge the result is not exclusively related to myself and our political interest. We must admit, once and for all, that in Romania the Liberal Democratic Party and Traian Basescu are using means that are beyond the limits of the democratic game.”
The daily newspaper ROMANIA LIBERA believes that, quote “the most urgent rule to be applied is for Mircea Geoana to concede defeat” unquote, while analysts believe that his move to go to justice is absolutely counter-productive, given that, in pragmatic terms, there’s actually no chance for the court to invalidate the ballot and rule the repeat of the ballot. And, in moral terms, in the counties controlled by the so-called Social Democrat and Liberal local barons, more numerous than those controlled by the Liberal Democrats, Geoana’s supporters resorted to the same illegal means they blame on their opponents. Politically speaking, a virtual repeat of the presidential election is expected to bring a clearer victory for Basescu, given that Basescu’s voters will be infuriated that the Social Democrats don’t know how to lose after Sunday night they proved that they don’t know how to win either.
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