In the parliamentary elections, for both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the PRM finished in a strong second place and left the PDSR short of an overall majority. The PDSR are now in the process of setting out their policies and consulting with the other parties so as to determine their options for forming a government. The polarisation of the poll between left and right has had the effect of squeezing out the centrist parties who have been governing the country since 1996. The PN CD leadership immediately resigned. Investors will not come to Romania anymore, they will go to Hungary, Bulgaria or even Yugoslavia.
Freedom is complicated.
People were ignored so they have voted in consequence. This is the vote of empty stomachs. The second ballot PDSR leader Ion Iliescu began his campaign for the second ballot in a speech on Sunday night after the polls had closed. Press reports indicate that PRM leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor has decided on his strategy for the second round of the presidential campaign. His focus appears to be to alienate Ion Iliescu from the rank and file of his party and at the same time indicate to Romanians in general that the PDSR leader would not be acceptable to Western institutions.