Elections in Romania // Exit-poll IRES: PSD wins the parliamentary elections
The Social Democrat Party (PSD) gains highest vote scores at the parliamentary elections on Sunday and together with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) might form the parliamentary majority.
PSD obtained 45.3 pct of votes for the Chamber of Deputies and 45.4 pct for the Senate, while the National Liberal Party (PNL) obtained both for the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies - 21 pct, according to opinion polls carried out at the exit of the polling stations by the Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy (IRES), as broadcast by private broadcaster Digi24.
Third-ranked is the Save Romania Union (USR), garnering 9.3 pct of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies and 9.4 percent in the Senate.
The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) has, according to IRES, 6.3 percent of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies and 6.4 in the Senate, while the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) has allegedly gained 6.7 pct in the Chamber of Deputies and 6.8 pct in the Senate.
According to IRES, the People's Movement Party has not crossed the electoral threshold, gaining 4.6 pct in the Chamber of Deputies and 4.7 in the Senate.
The data shown is the data centralized until 21:00 hrs when the polling stations closed. The margin of error is of plus/minus 1.6 percent