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The campaign for the first round presidential elections due to be held on November 2 in Romania began Friday.

A number of polls suggest Prime Minister Victor Ponta, also a leader of the Social Democrat Party, is most likely to win, with his main rival, ethnic German Klaus Iohannis, who heads the Christian Liberal party, trailing behind.

The board of the centre-right Popular Movement Party, PMP, on Tuesday named Elena Udrea as its candidate in November's presidential elections.

Udrea, 41, a former Tourism Minister, is highly unlikely to win against the current front runner, the Prime Minister, Victor Ponta.

The National Council of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) on Tuesday unanimously accepted Victor Ponta's bid for Romania's President. The acceptance of the bid was announced by PSD Executive Chairman Liviu Dragnea after putting up for a vote a resolution on Ponta's run for president of Romania.

Romania’s centre-right National Liberal Party, PNL, and the Democratic Liberal Party, PDL, on Saturday unanimously voted to combine their forces in order to create a party capable of taking on Prime Minister Victor Ponta's ruling centre-left coalition.

Leaders of the opposition National Liberal Party, PNL, and the Democratic Liberal Party, PDL, have pledged to hold a joint congress on July 26 at which their planned merger will be approved.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta has stated on Thursday that if the Social Liberal Union (USL) had still existed, he would have never ran against Crin Antonescu in the presidential elections and that he considers the former National Liberal Party (PNL) chairman as the sole potential presidential competitor from PNL and the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

PDL (Democratic Liberal Party) and PNL (the National Liberal Party) on Wednesday will submit to the Deputies Chamber a simple motion about the political interference in the justice system, in which they especially refer to the Duicu case [Adrian Duicu, chief of the Mehedinti County Council, accused of corruption], PDL chairman, Vasile Blaga said in the end of the meeting of the St

The National Liberal Party, PNL, Romania’s biggest opposition party, elected Klaus Iohannis as its new president on Saturday.

Iohannis, 55, an ethnic German and popular mayor of Transylvanian city of Sibiu, has replaced former parliament speaker Crin Antonescu, and has promised to revive the party’s popularity.

The ruling coalition will suggest Parliament convene early this July in an extraordinary session to ratify Moldova's association agreement with the European Union and vote on a draft law reducing the social security contributions (CAS) by five percentage points, Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Monday.

Leaders of the opposition Democratic Liberal Party, PDL, on Monday agreed to a merger with the National Liberal Party, PNL, in order to create a rightist alliance capable of taking on Victor Ponta's ruling centre-left coalition.