BUCHAREST – Voters in Romania were casting ballots Sunday in municipal elections, which are being viewed as a test of how the next general election on Dec.
6 will unfold for the country’s minority-led government. About 19 million registered voters were choosing local officials, council presidents and mayors to fill more than 43,000 positions across the European Union nation.
The election should reveal the strength of the center-right National Liberal Party, or NLP, which has controlled Romania’s minority government since the fall from power last year of the Social Democrat Party, known as PSD.
The left-leaning PSD remains the strongest party in Romania’s parliament, despite losing its governing majority. It has been in power until last.