Monday, November 23, 2009

75,000 Romanians living abroad vote by 8 p.m., Chisinau and Orhei polling stations register some of the highest turnout in the world

By 8 p.m. (Bucharest and Chisinau time), about 75,000 Romanians living abroad had voted in the presidential election and the referendum , according to the most recent data from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Polling stations nr. 1, 2, and 4 in Chisinau, as well as the one in Orhei, have registered some of the highest turnout in the world.

According to the latest data available for Moldova specifically, by 6 p.m. more than 6,300 Romanian residents in Chisinau and other cities in the country had voted.

According to exit polls, incumbent Traian Basescu and Social Democrat Mircea Geoana were the top two vote-getters, and will head off in a second round in December.

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