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Romania's new government wins local polls

June 15, 2012

(Reuters) - Romanians gave Prime Minister Victor Ponta's new leftist government strong backing in local elections on Sunday, sending a clear message that they had had enough of austerity.Ponta's Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance won up to 65 percent of votes in some areas and more than 50 percent in some big cities, exit polls showed, in the first electoral test

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