Romania, pro-EU parties agree to form a coalition government

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, DEC 11 - Romania's pro-European parties have agreed to form a governing majority that will exclude the hard right and potentially endorse a single candidate for a rerun of the country's annulled presidential election, The Guardian reports.
    The ruling leftist Social Democrats won the most seats in the parliamentary election on December 1, but three ultranationalist and hard-right groups, some with overt pro-Russian sympathies, won more than one-third of the seats.
    The parliamentary ballot was sandwiched between two rounds of a presidential election in which far-right NATO critic Călin Georgescu rose from relative obscurity to become the surprise frontrunner. This prompted accusations of Russian meddling, and the country's top court annulled the presidential vote on Friday, saying the entire process would have to be rerun.
    (ANSA).