site.btaSeven Parties Enter Romanian Parliament Based on 99% of Tally Sheets

Seven parties have passed the electoral threshold to enter Romania's Parliament, official data from the Permanent Electoral Authority shows, after processing more than 99% of the country's tally sheets, local media report.

With a voter turnout of 52.33%, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) ranked first and second, followed by the centrist National Liberal Party (PNL). Next are the reformist Save Romania Union (USR), the nationalist SOS Romania party, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR) and the Party of Young People (POT).

In the Chamber of Deputies, the distribution of votes is as follows: PSD - 22.27%, AUR - 17.86%, PNL - 13.42%, USR - 12.18%, SOS Romania - 7.21%, DAHR - 6.42% and POT - 6.34%. In the Senate, the votes are distributed as follows: the PSD - 22.63%, AUR - 18.16%, PNL - 14.40%, USR - 12.08%, SOS Romania - 7.62%, DAHR - 6.47% and POT - 6.27%.

The preferences of Romanians in the diaspora are for AUR and USR, Digi 24 TV noted. 

With more than 84% of the tally sheets abroad processed, AUR received 25.66%, USR 21.57%, SOS Romania 16.22%, POT 13.69% and PNL 7.47%. Only 3.17% of Romanian citizens living abroad voted for the PSD, according to results cited by Hotnews website.

The site noted that the three nationalist parties AUR, SOS and the new POT party together garnered more than 55% of the vote abroad.