Exit polls from Romania's first presidential election round show a tight race. Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu leads, ...

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, of the Social Democratic Party is leading centre-right opposition leader Elena Lasconi in the ...

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu won the first round of Sunday’s presidential election and is likely to face ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu looked set to win the most votes in the first round of a ...

The same exit polls gave second place to centre-right former journalist turned small-town mayor Elena Lasconi at 18 percent, ...

Romanian Premier Marcel Ciolacu led the first round of Sunday's presidential election with 25% votes, exit polls showed, and ...

Presidential candidate Ludovic Orban, now the head of a center-right political vehicle but once the leader of the Liberal ...

Romanians are casting ballots on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that could pit a far-right nationalist ...

Social Democrat (PSD) leader and prime minister Marcel Ciolacu remains the frontrunner in Romania’s presidential race that ...

Ciolacu scored 25 percent of the vote while the centre-right former journalist turned small-town mayor Elena Lasconi was on 18 percent, according to the polls. Two far-right candidates scored 15 and ...

Centre-right leader Elena Lasconi follows with 18%, closely trailed by hard-right rivals Calin Georgescu and George Simion.

Neck and neck with Simion at 15% and vying for second place in the first round of the presidential election is Elena Lasconi, chairwoman of the progressive liberal Save Romania Union (USR).