Romania Constitutional Court Overrules Contestations Against Five Presidential Candidacies

The Central Electoral Office said Sunday 12 candidates for presidential elections were registered by the deadline on October 23 and 15 candidates were rejected as they did not meet the required legal conditions.

The Electoral Office registered the following candidates: Constantin Ninel Potarca (independent candidate) who collected 287,378 signatures; liberal George-Crin-Laurentiu Antonescu with 1,615,556 signatures; Steaua financer George Becali, running of behalf of the Christain Democratic New Generation Party with 256,646 signatures; Hunor Kelemen of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania with 284,949 signatures Corneliu Vadim Tudor of the far-right Greater Romania Party with 346.510 signatures; social democrat Mircea-Dan Geoana with 2,536,506 signatures; Traian Basescu running on behalf of the Democratic Liberal Party with 1.712.950 signatures; Ovidiu-Cristian Iane of the Romanian Ecologist Party with 221,757 signatures; Sorin Mircea Oprescu , independent candidate with 400,215 signatures; Remus Florinel Cernea of the Green Party with 210,346 signatures; Constantin Rotaru of the Socialist Alliance Party with 242,606 signatures and Gheorghe Eduard Manole running independently with 273,000 signatures.