Pro-Western parties have won the most votes in Romania’s parliamentary election and will look to form a coalition government as the European Union country faces a surge of support for far-right nationalists who made huge gains in the country’s legislature.

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.

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 Social Democrats (PSD) were set to win Sunday's parliamentary elections while the far right secured big gains, partial results released late Sunday showed, deepening uncertainty in th

Romania's ruling leftist Social Democrats (PSD) looked set to win the most votes in a parliamentary election on Sunday, fending off a resurgent far-right movement that challenges the country's pro-Western orientation,

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.

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,

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,