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Sunday’s presidential elections were surely caught the interest of the Romanians living in diaspora. From morning till evening Romanians living abroad have been queuing for hours in front of the Romania’s embassies and consulates, waiting to cast their vote. Among the longest queues, there have been the ones in London, Paris, Munich, Stuttgart, Brussels, Rome, Turin, The Hague Bern, Valencia or Kishinev.
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Some tens of voters have broken in the Romanian Embassy in Paris before closing the ballot boxes so that they can cast their vote. According to the law, the vote is allowed for the persons who are inside the polling station at 9 p.m., France time. 1,000 Romanians said they could not cast their vote in London, protesting in front of the embassy. Protests have been staged in Romania, too, about 200 persons, mostly youngsters, booing in front of the Foreign Ministry for Foreign Affairs against the voting process.
via The Romania Journal: Diaspora Romanians queuing for voting prompt homestretch electoral clashes
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