Romania

The Prodemo Party's candidate for presidential elections, Mirel Mircea Amaritei said that he has voted for a prosperous Romania.

"I have voted for a Romania of prosperity, progress and pro-democracy. Romania, you are Pro today," Amaritei said on Sunday after voting at the "George Enescu" National College of Music.

Minister of Internal Affairs Gabriel Oprea cast his ballot in the presidential elections at School No. 150 in the capital early on Sunday, stressing he had voted for the progress of Romania.

Independent candidate Gheorghe Funar said he voted in Sunday's elections for a Romanian and Orthodox president, God-fearing, who loves his people, who is willing to sacrifice for the good of the country.

Romania has obtained a silver medal, through pair Mihai Paraschiv - Diandra Illes, in the Ten Dance Youth and Adults World Championships that took place on Friday in Riga, Latvia, according to a press release remitted by the Romanian Dancesport Federation.

Romania has managed to keep the number of inhabitants in rural areas, to provide the opportunity to young people to return to and work in their village, Deputy Prime Minister and Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin told Friday's conference 'Romanian Organic Forum,' held within the Indagra 2014 trade fair.

The overall value of the donations received and declared by the political parties, political and pre-election alliances and the independent candidates in the electoral campaign for the president of Romania stood at 7,581,405 lei as of Oct. 30, the Permanent Electoral Authority said in a release to AGERPRES on Friday. (1 euro=4.4 lei)

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the presidential candidate of PSD-UNPR-PC (the Social Democratic Party, the National Union for Romania's Progress, the Conservative Party) said on Friday that the main foreign policy objective he has in view as head of state is to strengthen Romania's importance in the partnership with the U.S. through the role Bucharest plays in the regional policy.

Zsolt Szilagyi, the presidential candidate of the Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT) closed his campaign on Friday in Targu Mures (central Romania) by asking President Traian Basescu to read his programme on the 'Transylvanization' of Romania and to vote for him.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Friday that he is worried by President Traian Basescu's recent allegations about the EADS case file, which in his opinion confirms the existence of corruption in the relationship between Romania and Germany.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday said that President Traian Basescu needs to say which intelligence service precisely broke the law by taking some pictures of Elena Udrea and Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) head Alina Bica in Paris.