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Ponta: I regret the fact that not all Romanians abroad were able to vote, I have paid the political price

Ponta: I regret the fact that not all Romanians abroad were able to vote, I have paid the political price
26 Noi 2014   •   16:49
Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the PSD president, said Tuesday that he regretted that some Romanians abroad were not able to vote in the presidential elections. "I regret the fact that not all Romanians were able to vote in the Diaspora, I paid the political price," Victor Ponta said before the Parliament.

Prime Minister proposed to designate a non-political institutions to organize the vote and called on the parties to put their rivalries aside and adopt the necessary legislative framework for the introduction of the electronic voting.

Victor Ponta asked the  Parliament to introduce electronic voting in the elections law or mail voting  so that all Romanians in the diaspora should  vote in the next elections.

The prime minister said that an institution must be designated to handle the organization of the vote in the country and abroad.

Liberal leader Ludovic Orban, attacked Prime Minister Victor Ponta hard whom he asked to resign because citizens in the Diaspora could not vote.


The new head of the Romanian diplomacy, Bogdan  Aurescu, said that the  Foreign Ministry’s  image was affected by the scandal of the diaspora voting and the Prosecutor's investigation would establish clearly  who held the responsibility for  the incidents of 2 and 16 November.

After the first round of the presidential elections, the Prosecutor General launched a criminal investigation in rem, for violating the right to vote in the elections due to problems in the Diaspora.



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