People vote in Timisoara during the Romanian parliamentary elections on December 6th. Photo: der makabere / Shutterstock
On December 6th, Romanians went to the polls to elect the members of the country’s two parliamentary houses – the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In this difficult period for the country, the elections registered the lowest voter turnout since the fall of communism in Romania. Only five parties won seats in parliament. The big winner was the Social Democratic Party (28.90 per cent in the Chamber of Deputies and 29.32 per cent in the Senate). The party of the current President Klaus Iohannis, the National Liberal Party, took second place (25.19 per cent in the Chamber of Deputies and 25.58 per cent in the Senate). At the same time, USR PLUS, a party with a strong anti-corruption agenda, came in third (15.37 per cent in the Chamber of Deputies and 15.86 per cent in the Senate). The biggest surprise, however, was the performance of the Alliance for the Union
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