Exit polls showed the PSD winning 26% of votes, ahead of the hard-right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR) at 19%. The PSD has 32.5% of seats in the current parliament, while AUR has 8.5%.

Romania's ruling center-left Social Democrats were poised to secure the most votes in Sunday's parliamentary election, according to preliminary results published Monday.

A car with a Romanian flag drives past posters depicting Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Leader of the radical right Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR) George Simion, a day before the parliamentary election,

Romanians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, in which the far right is expected to gain from uncertainty over whether the shock result in a presidential election will stand. Sunday's vote is the second of three consecutive ballots for both a new parliament and a new president,

Romanian centrist and leftist parties looked to have fended off a surge by the nationalist right in Sunday's parliamentary election, as attention turned to a top court ruling later on Monday on whether to annul the results of a presidential vote.

In Romania's parliamentary elections, preliminary results after 99.45% of the votes counted show that the ruling pro-European Social Democratic Party (PSD) has secured victory. However, in second place is the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians,