Central Electoral Bureau

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Monday that the government will request the Central Electoral Bureau to secure the number of members in the electoral bureaus of the polling stations in case the representatives of the political parties that no longer have candidates in the presidential runoff do not show up at the polling station.

Incumbent President Klaus Iohannis is leading the first round of the presidential election, with 36.91%, followed by PSD candidate, Viorica Dancila - 23.45%, and candidate of USR-PLUS Alliance, Dan Barna - 14.19%, after counting the votes from 18,781 polling stations, Spokesman for the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) Mircea Preotescu said on Monday.

Voter turnout in Sunday's presidential election as of 21:00hrs was 47.66 percent nationwide, according to the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) Spokesman Mircea Preotescu. In the urban area, voter turnout was 48.54pct, and in the rural area, 46.49pct. The total turnout, by 21:00hrs, was 8,683,112, with as many as 5,056,941 voters in the urban area and 3,626,171 in the rural area.

Voter turnout in Sunday's presidential election as of 18:00 hrs was 42.19 pct nationwide, according to spokesman of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) Mircea Preotescu. The turnout in the urban area was 42.41 pct, while in rural areas it was 41.9 pct. Higher turnout rates were reported in the counties of Ilfov (53.67 pct), Cluj (50.83 pct) and Brasov (47.40 pct).

Over 559,000 Romanians from the diaspora turned out to vote on Sunday, until 18:00 hrs. This is the third day of the presidential election in the diaspora. About 25,200 Romanians from abroad voted by mail. According to information from the Central Electoral Bureau's online platform, most voters in the diaspora were from Italy - about 114,000 in as many as 142 polling stations.

The servicemen of the 'Black Eagles' Battalion have voted in Kandahar - Afghanistan, the Ministry of National Defense announced in a Facebook post. "They are the best ambassadors of Romania abroad. They are doing their duty far away from the country at the Kandahar Air Base.

More than 414,000 Romanians voted in the Diaspora until 2:00 pm, in the third day of the presidential election, plus 25,200 who voted by correspondence.

Voter turnout in today's presidential election as of 12:00hrs was 15.82pct nationwide, according to the website of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC). Total voter turnout as of 12:00hrs was 2,882,075, of which 1,724,928 in the urban area and 1,157,147 in the rural area.

The electoral process concluded at the polling station set up in Auckland, New Zealand, with 191 Romanians who voted, during the three days, for Romania's next President, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE). The polling station in Auckland was the first to open in the Diaspora, on Friday, at 1:00hrs, Romania's time, and closed on Sunday, at 10:00hrs Romania's - local time 21:00hrs.

The nationwide voter turnout in the presidential elections on Sunday, before 9:00, stood at 3.52 percent of the voters, according to Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) Spokesman Mircea Preotescu. In the urban area, the turnout was 3.48 percent, and in the rural area 3.57 percent, while in Bucharest it stood at 3.32 percent, he added.