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Thousands of Romanians through Western Europe waited for several hours to be able to vote in Sunday’s European Parliament and judicial referendum, with some failing to cast their ballots, as polling stations in cities with large Romanian communities were overwhelmed by the high turnout.

The chairman of Romanian opposition party PMP, Eugen Tomac, announced on Thursday that the country’s Supreme Court forwarded a challenge made by the group against the establishment of the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) for the upcoming European Elections to the Constitutional Court.

The Central Electoral Bureau rejected as groundless Wednesday the request of the Romanian Social Democratic Party to recount votes in polling stations where alleged irregularities occurred during presidential election, adding social democrats didn't say extacly which polling stations were concerned.

Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau spokesman Marian Muhulet told MEDIAFAX Sunday the institution received about 40 notifications regarding the unfolding of the vote, and the notifications were forwarded to the police and local electoral bureaus.