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Romanian president: second round between Ponta and Iohannis


Victor Ponta Iohannis against Klaus. The second round of the Romanian presidential election wants an unprecedented duel between a favorite Premier morality considered elastic and a Liberal candidate from the German minority champion of "well done."


The candidate of the Social Democratic Party and current Prime Minister Victor Ponta, 42, gives the second poorest country in the European Union political stability, but did question his respect for the independence of the judiciary while Romania is riddled with corruption. Still, the promise of higher pensions and the minimum wage seduced.


"It makes me feel good. He is young, strong, capable, very intelligent and he's ready to do a lot for our country, "said a Romanian.


It is in the countryside that the former prosecutor in the most support, and he knows it.


"I mean to farmers as I had trouble seeing how our past leaders treated them as slaves. And I want to promise that we will do as we have done in recent years, namely to increase subsidies and support farmers, "said Victor Ponta front of a crowd of farmers.


The candidate of the Christian-Liberal Alliance center-right Iohannis Klaus, 55, is an atypical candidate on the Romanian political scene. Former professor of physics, it has built its reputation on its good management of the municipality of Sibiu, a medieval town in Transylvania. An example of a job well done that it wants to expand to the whole country. "My vision is that Romania will be a Western country," he likes to say.


"We support Klaus Johannis, because we want to grow the middle class. Unfortunately, in Romania, the middle class, engine company does not exist, "said one Romanian.


Klaus Iohannis has focused his campaign on the fight against corruption and argues in favor of lifting the immunity of elected officials, including the president.


"I propose the Romanians a president who is an example in public behavior. I want to be a president who place convener and mediator, but at the same time is very sharp in case of slippage, "says Klaus Iohannis.


In the first round on November 2, only 160,000 Romanians were able to vote for lack of polling stations in sufficient numbers. However, the Romanian diaspora is three to four million people in Western Europe alone, two million divided between Italy and Spain. This is also in front of their embassy in Madrid a group of Romanians came to ask the warranty to vote in the second round.