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UPDATE Romania's end-2019 budget deficit at 4.6 pct of GDP

Romania closed 2019 with a budget deficit of 4.6 percent of GDP, above the authorities' November estimation, when the second budget adjustment was operated, Finance Minister Florin Citu announced on Tuesday. The only time with a wider budget gap was the crisis year of 2010, when the government ran a deficit of 6.5 percent of GDP. In 2018 the budget deficit was 2.88 percent of GDP.

Candidate Ponta: you have three sentenced colleagues; candidate Ionannis: you have 38

Incumbent prime minister Victor Ponta, the presidential candidate of the Social Democrat Party (PSD), National Union for Romania's Progress and Conservative Party told his opponent Klaus Iohannis of the Christian Liberal Alliance there where three of his Rightist colleagues 'definitively and irrevocably' sentenced; Iohannis replied the Leftist have 38 such people.