Election Bureau: 161,054 Romanians from abroad voted in Sunday's presidential polls

As many as 161,054 Romanian voters turned out to the presidential ballot on Sunday, according to the figures received by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) from 294 polling stations set up abroad by 8 a.m. on Monday.

The highest turnout was recorded in Italy (35,508 persons), then Spain (33,053), the Republic of Moldova (21,980) and Britain (9,933), the authority said.

Romanians went to the ballot in significant numbers too in Germany (8,140), France (7,720), the United States (6,221), Austria (3,597), Canada (2,668), Israel (2,265), Denmark (1,809), Cyprus (1,784), Switzerland (1,697), the Netherlands (1,673), Greece (1,449), the United Arab Emirates (1,118), Portugal (1,102), Luxembourg (1,088), Hungary (1,084), the Czech Republic (1,060) and Norway (902).

Election Bureau No. 48 for the polling stations based abroad has announced that the voting process abroad ended at 7 a.m. (Romanian time) on Monday, when the last polling station closed in Vancouver, Canada, at 9 p.m. (Canadian time).

According to a release to AGERPRES, the electoral process in the polling stations based outside the country's borders has ended in observance of the legal provisions, in spite of the arisen difficulties.AGERPRES