Romanians voted Sunday in a presidential election runoff pitting incumbent Traian Basescu against former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana. Basescu, supported by the Democrat Liberal Party, sought a second five-year term. Geoana leads the Social Democratic Party. Basescu and Geoana emerged on top in a first round of voting Nov. 29, with Basecu garnering 32.44 percent of the vote and Geoana 31.5 percent. Under Romanian law, a runoff is mandatory if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, according to a report of the United Press International (UPI).
