The recount of annulled votes in Romania's presidential election has not changed the outcome of the poll. The central electoral bureau in Bucharest has confirmed the news that sitting President Traian Basescu keeps his narrow re-election victory.
The Romanian Constitutional Court ordered a recount of 138,000 annulled ballots. Over 2000 valid ballots were found to have been disqualified, but over half of them of them turned out to be for the president.
The recount followed complaints of electoral fraud by the opposition candidate, Mircea Geoana of the left-wing Social Democrats. The president won by an extremely narrow majority and the recount could have changed the result of the election.
photo: Mr Basescu celebrates re-election (EPA)
Mr Basescu celebrates re-election (EPA)
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