The too much tensioned elections of the president in Romania finished today. Here was a fight in exit polls last night, three of those showing Mircea Geoana as winner at 1-2 percents ahead of Traian Basescu, while CSOP exit poll shows Traian Basescu as winner with 50,4% to 49,6%.

Mircea Geoana and Crin Antonescu celebrated last night the victory based on the three exit polls, but the realty of votes was different. And this Election Day seems a clone of Election Day in 2004, when Traian Basescu defeated Adrian Nastase (at that time also president of social-democrats). In second round of 2004 presidential elections, in the morning, Adrian Nastase leaded with ca.6%, and, in the evening, he was 50%-50% with Traian Basescu. At that time Traian Basescu was in opposition, so he was not susceptible to fraud elections as he is accused now.

Sunday morning, Mircea Geoana was also with ca. 4% ahead Traian Basescu, but, in the evening, they were equal. Today, Monday, Mircea Geoana staff claimed frauds after the partial results shows that Traian Basescu will win, but these accusations were not sustainable. Mircea Geoana refused any declaration after partial results were published, while Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase (main social-democrat leaders) declared that, if this is the realty, they will accept it.

Today at 13:00, after counting 99,95% of total number of votes, the Electoral Bureau published official results that shows that Traian Basescu remains the president of Romania for next 5 years with 50,33% of total number of votes. We shall wait for final results after contestations (probably tomorrow in the morning), but still good chances that the final result will be the same.

The mobilization of voters was higher than in the first round of elections, the presence being now of 58%. And, in this final round, only 1,38% of votes were annulated which represents a smaller fraction compared to first round, when ca. 2,25% of votes were annulated.

It seems that Traian Basescu was right when he said that the votes of regular people are not in the pocket of political leaders and people are rational. The union realized by social-democrats, national-liberals and Hungarian’s party, which represents more ca. 65% of Parliament, was not able to defeat him.

Also, an important claim of Traian Basescu was that somebody can win against the whole mass-media reunited. And he proved that, even the mass-media campaign against him was of almost one year long. So, beware mass-media, you are not almighty!