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Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta (C) before announcing his candidacy for the Romanian presidential election, at the National Arena stadium, in Bucharest, Romania, 20 September 2014. Photo by EPA/BGNES
The campaign for the first round presidential elections due to be held on November 2 in Romania began Friday.
A number of polls suggest Prime Minister Victor Ponta, also a leader of the Social Democrat Party, is most likely to win, with his main rival, ethnic German Klaus Iohannis, who heads the Christian Liberal party, trailing behind.
Figures show Ponta is not expected to have an outright victory, but could get up to 57 percent of the vote if he faces Iohannis in a run-off.
Over 18.3 million Romanians will be eligible to vote.
Interior Minister Gabriel Opria will be in charge of organizing the vote, according to Romanian media outlets.
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