The Romanian centrist opposition party has won the country's elections for the European parliament, while the nationalist Greater Romania party will be completely pushed out of the European assembly, exit polls show. On Sunday (25 November), the first elections ever for the European Parliament were held in the country, which joined the EU together with Bulgaria in January of this year.
Prime minister Calin Tariceanu's ruling Liberal Party won around 15.2% of the votes, a few percentage points higher than expected, coming in at third place.
The centrist Democrat Party of President Traian Basescu came in at 31.5% of the votes, according to the exit poll, making it the largest party in Romania.
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) looked set to end second with an estimated 21.1%.
The nationalist Greater Romania party, which currently holds five of the country's 35 seats in the European Parliament, won only an estimated 3% of the votes.
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