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Mon 12 Dec 2008Ex-communists in Romania poised to return to power
ROMANIA'S EX-COMMUNIST Social Democrats (PSD) comfortably won yesterday's general election, exit polls suggested, as the right-wing ruling party of prime minister Calin Tariceanu trailed home a distant third.
Four years after Mr Tariceanu's Liberal Party (PNL) and the centrist Liberal Democrats (PDL) linked to president Traian Basescu joined forces to end the PSD's domination of post-communist Romania, the party led by former foreign minister Mircea Geoana triumphed on a pledge to deliver greater social spending and lower taxes for the poor at a time of predicted economic slowdown.
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