The Romanian Prime-minister Emil Boc announced a 2% increment of the pension point and free of tax reinvested profit, starting October 1st. It has also announced it will drop the minimum tax, at least partially, starting January 1st. By the end of the year, the Government has to reduce budget spending by 0.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), so that the national deficit does not exceed 7.3% of the GDP. “If we think there are only... [...]

According to the current legal stipulations, the voters will be able to attend to the general elections only to the polling stations in which their domicile is according to the ID. In conclusion, the students, the ones without sojourn documents in other countries or the ones that work in other cities without having mutation, won’t be able to vote on November 30. Over two million Romanians find themselves in this situation. Although the... [...]

The leaders of the parties from the Opposition promise that they’ll do everything they can for that the professors to receive their wages increased with 50%, even retroactive, starting with October 1. There are taken into account two options: adopting of a motion, respective rejecting in the Parliament of the Emergency Ordinance through which the Executive has put off till April 1 the salary rise. The Prime Minister Tariceanu says... [...]

Last month the government has allocated 1,3 billion lei from the budgetary reserve fund for current and capital expenditures, to over 2000 mayoralties. The mayoralties managed by PSD and liberals have received the largest sum of money, PDL accusing the Government that the budgetary allocation was made on political criteria. On the other hand, PSD says that PD acted the same. According to a decision of the Executive from September 24, 1.100... [...]

During the current year, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has adopted 29 decisions related to the constitutionality of some laws and solved two juridical conflicts of constitutional nature.Of those eight notices hand in to CCR before the laws to be promulgated, just for the last three were overruled the notices for unconstitutionality.The activity of the Constitutional Court seems to have intensified lately, this giving since the... [...]

Romania's Democratic Liberal Party, or PDL, plans to revise the Constitution after general elections end-November to instate a single-chamber Parliament and reduce the number of lawmakers. Party president Emil Boc told a news conference Sunday he will propose Monday the start of a signature-collection campaign for the instatement of a single-chamber parliament. "We'll discuss this proposition in the party's leading college meeting, and... [...]

Romanian former EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban was appointed presidential adviser for European affairs, according to a press release from President Traian Basescu’s office. Ludovic Orban served as European Commissioner for Multilingualism between 2007, when Romania joined the European Union, and 2009. [...]

The Conservative Party Congress has elected a new president, Daniel Constantin, who competed with Petre Marginean in the internal elections held Sunday. Constantin got 975 votes, while Marginean secured 398 of the votes. The winner is a former EU counselor with the Agriculture Ministry and the Agency for Payments and Interventions in Agriculture former president, and Marginean is the leader of the party's branch in Hunedoara, western Romania.... [...]

One of the amendments to the social security budget for 2010 approved today by Romanian parliament commissions for labor and health states that employees’ and employers’ social security contributions will be reduced, although the draft budget stipulated they would remain at the last year’s level.   According to the amendment, the contribution quotas will be set at 21.8% for normal labor conditions, of which 9% will be... [...]

After reexamining and recounting all the voided ballots in Romania’s presidential election held last Sunday, the Central Electoral Bureau found 2,247 valid ballots amongst the 137.476 votes that were declare null. Therefore, 1,260 were in favor of the incumbent Traian Basescu and 987 for social democrat Mircea Geoana, Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau said Monday.   The Social Democratic Party's claimed last week that the... [...]

The Social Democratic Party, whose presidential candidate Mircea Geoana was leading in exit-polls after Sunday's presidential election, announced will contest the outcome at the Constitutional Court, claiming the election was rigged.   Although Geoana was leading exit-polls Sunday evening, the final election results shows incumbent Traian Basescu reelected with 50.33% and Geoana losing with 49.66%.   Social Democratic Party... [...]

The final preliminary results of the second round of the presidential elections in Romania were presented today by Central Electoral Bureau, after counts in all polling stations. According to these, the incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 50.33% of the votes and social democrat contender Mircea Geoana got 49.66%. Voter turnout was of 58.02%. The Central Electoral Bureau will submit the final results to the Constitutional Court for... [...]

Romania’s curent president, Traian Basescu, won the first round of the presidential elections held on Sunday. He obtained 32.44% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.15%, according to final results released Wednesday by the Central Electoral Bureau after the counting of ballots in all polling stations. Liberal candidate Crin Antonescu got 20.02% of the votes.   Next come far-rightist Corneliu Vadim Tudor... [...]

At the Romanian referendum organized Sunday, 50.91% of the citizens eligible to vote came to express their opinion.  77.78% of the voters supported a single-chamber Parliament, and 88.4% supported downsizing the Parliament to a maximum 300 MPs, according to preliminary results released Tuesday after the counting of ballots in 99.92% polling stations. Source: Mediafax [...]

After counting the votes from 99.92% of the poling stations, the Central Electoral Bureau announced, today, that Romania’s incumbent president Traian Basescu obtained 32.42% of the votes and social democrat candidate Mircea Geoana got 31.17%. The third place was occupied by liberal candidate Crin Antonescu, with 20.02% of the votes.   Next come far-rightist Corneliu Vadim Tudor (5.55%), Hungarian minority representative Kelemen... [...]