Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Romania Heads for Presidential Run-Off
Bucharest | 23 November 2009 |
After counting votes from nearly 50 per cent of polling stations, Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau said early Monday that Basescu had 33 per cent of the vote, while Geoana got 29 per cent.
Conservative opposition leader Crin Antonescu polled 20.8 percent, finishing third in a field of a dozen or so candidates that all trailed far behind with 5 per cent or less of the vote.
Full results are expected later on Monday.
The new president will have to appoint a prime minister to form a new cabinet, after the former head of government Emil Boc resigned last month, an appointment that is crucial to the continuation of an International Monetary Fund-led bail out.
Voters also took part in a controversial referendum asking if they want to reduce the number of parliamentarians in Parliament and abolish one of its two chambers.
Basescu, who called the referendum, wants a one chamber Parliament with a maximum of 300 lawmakers, down from 471. The move is strongly opposed by his opponents and civil rights organisations who say it will give the president too much power.
Partial results showed that around 77 per cent of voters supported a single-chamber of Parliament, and 89% supported downsizing the number of law-makers.
The election was marred by accusations of fraud. Authorities said two people were arrested in the southern city of Giurgiu for trying to buy votes.
