President's daughter and far-right party PRM could make it to the European Parliament, poll shows

Results showed that, if elections for the EP were held next week, the Democrat-Liberal Party (PD-L) would take the lead with 33 percent of the votes, followed by the Social-Democrat Party (PSD) with 31 percent. The Liberal Party (PNL) would be voted by 15 percent, while the representative party of the Hungarian minority in Romania would receive 7 percent of votes.

Surprisingly, former PD-L member and now independent runner Elena Băsescu would get 6 percent of the votes, almost double compared to the necessary 3.3 percent threshold required to obtain a seat.

The president's daughter has been mocked by the international media and described as "flashy" and unprepared for a political career. She used to be a model before joining PD-L. She also spent some time as an intern in Brussels, side by side with the a party colleague, back then a MEP, Monica Iacob-Ridzi, who now is the sports and youth minister.

PRM would score 5 percent of the votes according to the poll, while PNG would obtain 2 percent. As the latter did not present a list of candidates for the voting and its leader Gigi Becali, now under preventive arrest for allegedly restraining the thieves who tried to steal his car, is running for the EP as second on the PRM list, he theoretically stands the chance to go side by side with Vadim Tudor in the European legislative.

Romania will send 33 representatives to the European Parliament.

The county joined the European bloc on January 1, 2007, with the promise to crackdown corruption and continue reforms in the justice system.

INSOMAR polled some 2,430 persons in the period March 26 – April 5. The poll has an error margin of plus/minus 2 percent.