Nastase Is 10 Points Ahead of Basescu

If elections were to take place next Sunday, Adrian Nastase [PM and Social Democrat Party president] and Traian Basescu [mayor of Bucharest and opposition Democrat Party president] would go in a second round of the presidential elections. The Institute for Social Studies (ISS) issued yesterday an opinion poll conducted from 7 to 10 October which showed Nastase would get 43.53% of the votes, and Basescu would get 33.86% of the votes.
Corneliu Vadim Tudor [president of Greater Romania Party] would take 13.16% of the votes, and Marko Bela [president of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania] would take 4.39% of the votes.
Same poll, on a different question: "who do you think will win the elections?" showed 66.9% credited Nastase with winning, 26.4% thought Basescu would, and 6.3% said Tudor will win the presidential elections.

When it came to parliamentary elections, 43.62% of respondents said they will go for the political alliance of the SDP and the Romanian Humanist
Party, while 35.99% will go for the alliance of the DP and the National Liberal Party. GRP would get 12.76% of votes, and the DUHR would get 4.47% of the votes.
The same poll found that 49.9% of the people thought Theodor Stolojan [leader of the NLP and running for presidency until ten days ago, when he opted out of both] opted out of the presidential race for medical reasons, while 20.9% thought he opted out because of political blackmailing.

Some 63.8% of the respondents thought Basescu was not a better candidate to replace Stolojan for running for the presidency on the DP-NLP Alliance ticket. Some 23.9% of the people thought the replacement will start intestine fights within the Alliance, while 22.8% did not agree, and 23.9% could not ascertain this.
Some 52% of the people interviewed said Basescu should keep his office as Bucharest mayor.
Some 53.9% thought he putting an act when crying at the press-conference
Stolojan announced he will drop out of the presidential race, while 41.3% thought Basescu was honest when he explained the next day that other reasons than bad health forced Stolojan out, like the later being blackmailed by the ruling SDP.