site.btaCrin Antonescu Votes for "United, Strong and Dignified Romania"

Crin Antonescu, presidential candidate of Romania's ruling coalition and the only contender with prior experience as acting president, voted in Bucharest on Sunday accompanied by his wife, MEP Adina Valean, and their daughter.

The three ruling parties - the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) - have formed the Romania Forward Alliance to support his candidacy in the presidential elections.

Antonescu, 65, said he voted for a united, strong and dignified Romania.

He expressed hope that the high voter turnout, potentially record-breaking, would ensure the new president's legitimacy and moral authority.