Romania: vote count shows narrow Parliament race (AP via Yahoo! News) Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 99 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a coalition.

Romania: early count shows president's party ahead (AP via Yahoo! News) The centrist party supported by Romania's president was leading in the country's parliamentary elections, according to early results Monday.

Socialists, Liberal Democrats Close in Romania Vote (Update3) (Bloomberg) Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Romania’s ex-communist Social Democratic Party won more votes than the Liberal Democratic Party in a close election that may now trigger weeks of wrangling to form a government during global economic turmoil.

Romania: vote count shows narrow Parliament race (The Charlotte Observer) (By ALISON MUTLER, Associated Press Writer) Romania's parliamentary election results Monday showed the centrist and leftist parties less than a percentage point apart with more than 99 percent of the vote counted, raising the prospect of tough negotiations to form a coalition. The leftist Social Democrats had slightly more with more than 33.5 percent while the centrist Democratic Liberal Party, ...

Left-wing claims victory in Romania vote (AFP via Yahoo! News) The left-wing Social Democrats claimed victory in Romania's general election on Sunday, but the first nationwide election since the country joined the European Union was marked my massive public disenchantment with politics.

FOCUS:Romania Vote Axes Government, Yet Points To More Of The Same (Nasdaq) Romania took a lurch to the left in its national elections Sunday, raising concerns of looser fiscal restraints and a rollback of reforms.

Romania To Keep Troops In Iraq Until 2011 - President (Nasdaq) BUCHAREST (AFP)--Romania will keep its troops in Iraq at least another three years or as long as its allies are there, President Traian Basescu told Romanian soldiers stationed abroad Monday.

Romania election too close to call (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News) BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A leftist party and a centrist group were running neck-and-neck on Monday after most votes had been counted from a parliamentary election in Romania, making lengthy coalition talks and an impotent government likely.

Exit polls: Social Dems get most votes in Romania (AP via Yahoo! News) Two exit polls in Romania are projecting the leftist Social Democrats have won the most votes in parliamentary elections in the former communist country.

Romania Low turnout mars Romanian election 01/12 19:52 CET (Euronews) Without a doubt, the most startling result from the election is that less than 40 percent of eligible voters took part in what was Romania’s first poll since entering the EU. For political analyst Stellan Tanase it is a sure sign of people’s growing disaffection with politics, which will make life much more difficult for the government.