Romania's foreign affairs minister resigns on voting abroad scandal

Romania’s foreign affairs minister Titus Corlatean announced his resignation on Monday, November 10, on issues in organizing the voting process abroad for the presidential elections. “I decided to file my resignation because I can’t accept to break the law,” Corlatean said. “The Foreign Affairs Minister maintains its position that there is no legal base for increasing the number of voting wards abroad,” Corlatean explained. He added that the Foreign Affairs Minister had supplemented the personnel for voting wards abroad with some 800 people and that the number of voting stamps and voting booths will be increased, which should make the voting process faster and allow more Romanians abroad to vote. Romanians organized protests on Sunday in Europe’s largest capitals, as well as in the largest cities in Romania, asking the Government to increase the number of voting wards abroad. In the first round of the presidential elections, a few thousand Romanians didn’t get to vote because of long queues at Romanian embassies abroad. editor@romania-insider.com