Romania

Dan Diaconescu, the presidential candidate of the People's Party - Dan Diaconescu (PP-DD), said Sunday, upon leaving the polling station that he voted for an overhaul of the country, from top to bottom.

Liberal senator Crin Antonescu, the former party leader and co-president of the defunct Social Liberal Union (USL, an alliance of Social Democrats and Liberals) said on Sunday he had come to the ballot for president of Romania out of respect for this fundamental right and out of solidarity with all his fellow countrymen who express hope by voting.

The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) candidate for Presidency, Kelemen Hunor has cast his vote in his native commune Carta, and said when exiting the polling station that he had voted thinking to a strong Romania, a Romania that respects its citizens and would have a word to say in the Black Sea region and in the European Union.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president of Romania in Sunday's polls under the banner of the Alliance of the Social Democrats, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the Conservatives (PSD-UNPR-PC), said early in the day he had voted because 'after ten years of war and destruction', the time of reconstruction has come.

The Socialist Alternative Party (PAS) candidate for Presidency, Constantin Rotaru said on Sunday in Ramnicu Valcea (south-western Romania), when outgoing from the polling station that he had voted for a Romania for all Romanians.

Eighteen million Romanians are voting for president on Sunday among 14 candidates.

The most likely winner, according to public opinion polls, is current PM Victor Ponta.

Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, an independent candidate in the presidential elections, considers that thanks to the vote the Romanians will cast on Sunday, "a bad chapter in Romania's political development, the Basescu regime" comes to an end.

The PMP's presidential candidate Elena Udrea, said she has voted for a beautiful Romania, aware of the fact that our country is at a crossroads.

The presidential candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL), Klaus Iohannis said on Sunday after casting his ballot at polling station no. 68 in Sibiu, alongside his wife Carmen, that he's very optimistic about the outcome of the Sunday polls.

Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea said that he has cast a Romanian vote in the presidential polls on Sunday, for someone who knows how to run a country.