However, low turnout invalidates election referendum 

Nov.27.– According to preliminary results, Basescu's Democratic Party won the EP vote, with 29.23% of the vote.

The Social Democrats were second, with 21.65%, while Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu's National Liberal Party trails with just over 13%. Major losses were suffered by the ultranationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM), which until now had held five of Romania's 35 EP seats. It got only 3% of the vote ... 

In the parallel referendum, 82.9% of Romanians said "yes" to [President] Basescu's new system [for uninominal voting system]. But turnout, estimated at 25.5%, was well below the required 50% threshold and the results will not stand …

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