Central Election Bureau releases preliminary 2 p.m. results of Sunday's polls

The Central Election Bureau (BEC) announced on Monday that 92.73 percent of the votes cast in the polling stations nationwide in Sunday's parliamentary elections have been counted.

The opposition PSD+PC Alliance (the opposition Social Democrats and Conservatives) got 33 percent of the votes for the Deputies' Chamber, followed by the opposition Liberal Democratic Party (PD-L) with 32.57 percent. Next are placed the ruling National Liberals (PNL) with 18.32 percent and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR, a junior ruling coalition partner) with 6.29 percent.

In the upper Senate house, the PSD+PC Alliance got 33.99 percent of the votes, the Democratic Liberals got 33.79 percent, the Liberals 18.49 percent and the UDMR 6.54 percent.

The other parties got less than 5 percent, said spokesman for BEC Marian Muhulet, adding that the votes in 16,789 polling station had been counted, from a total of 18,104.

The Municipal Electoral Bureau announced on Monday at 2 p.m. that the votes cast in 99.83% of the polling stations in Bucharest had been counted.

Thus, at Deputies' Chamber, PD-L obtained 37.52 percent, PSD+PC Alliance - 33.44 percent, PNL - 15.85 percent, while at the Senate, PD-L obtained 38.34 percent, PSD+PC Alliance - 34.84 percent, PNL - 15.52 percent, New Generation Party (PNG-CD) - 5 percent
AGERPRES