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Tuesday 8 december 2020

In this file photo dated Sunday, June 2, 2019, Spain's former King
Juan Carlos waves at the bullring in Aranjuez, Spain.
Associated Press
Spain: Ex-King Juan

Carlos I won't get special In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 file photo, Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban and head of the
ruling National Liberal party adjusts his mask after exit polls in the country's parliamentary elec-
tions were announced, in Bucharest, Romania.
treatment Associated Press

Romania's center-right prime minister
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish ($605,000). Under Spanish
government official said law, confessing to unde- resigns after election
Monday that Juan Carlos clared income and paying
I deserves no special treat- the outstanding taxes al-
ment by the legal system, lows offenders to avoid be- BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ity, which won around 6%. cial Democrats lost a con-
amid reports the former ing charged with a crime. — Romania's center-right Earlier Monday, Orban said fidence vote in the parlia-
monarch is preparing to The former monarch's legal prime minister resigned that coalition talks with the ment after a chaotic tenure
admit alleged undeclared team didn't immediately Monday after a general Social Democrats were out that had seen it run through
income. reply to requests for com- election in which voters of the question but did not three prime ministers and
National newspapers El ment. After he left Spain, delivered nominal victory provide a clear explana- dozens of ministers in the
País and El Mundo cited Juan Carlos went to stay in to the left-leaning, populist tion for how his party hoped space of just three years.
unidentified sources in their the United Arab Emirates, opposition party. to reach a new governing The Social Democratic-led
reports that the former but it is not clear whether With 95% of votes count- majority in the 465-seat bi- government had drawn
king, who in August went he is still there. ed in Sunday's election, cameral parliament. heavy criticism from the EU
to live abroad amid a fi- Transport Minister José Luis Ludovic Orban's National "I want to be very clear, we for its interference with the
nancial scandal, wants to Ábalos said in an interview Liberals have been defeat- will never negotiate with judiciary and a cascade of
confess to non-payment Monday with public broad- ed by the populist Social the PSD, we will not let the corruption scandals involv-
of taxes. El País said the un- caster RTVE that "every- Democrat Party. However PSD harm Romania," Orban ing prominent members.
declared income amounts body is equal before the the Social Democrats ap- said. But it defied pre-election
to more than 500,000 euros law, for better or for worse. pear unlikely to emerge on The AUR alliance was es- polls to become the nomi-
top in what promises to be tablished just a year ago nal winner of Sunday's vote
prolonged post-election under the leadership that with unfeasible promises to
Hundreds ill, 1 dead due wrangling to form a new militates against same- preserve Romania's welfare
coalition government.
sex marriages and was state model and after the
to unidentified illness in With most ballots counted, supportive of Orthodox minority National Liberals
the populist, corruption-
Church clerics who defied government faced strong
India prone and fiscally reck- pandemic restrictions in criticism for its handling of
less Social Democrat Party Romania to hold religious the pandemic.
(PSD) had around 30% of ceremonies. But it did sur- Romania was plagued by
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least nausea died Sunday eve- the vote, with Orban's re- prisingly well among Roma- widespread poverty even
one person has died and ning, the Press Trust of India formist center-right Na- nia's expats, having taken before the pandemic, with
200 others have been hos- news agency reported. tional Liberal Party trailing the lead in Italy and com- over 25% of the population
pitalized due to an uniden- Officials are trying to de- them by about 5%. The pro- ing in second in Spain and of 19 million living on less
tified illness in the southern termine the cause of the gressive USR-Plus alliance, France. than $5.50 a day. The pan-
Indian state of Andhra illness. So far, water sam- which has pledged not to Some 4 million Romanians demic has exacerbated
Pradesh, reports said Mon- ples from impacted areas be part of any Social Dem- who live abroad, mostly in structural problems, includ-
day. The illness was detect- haven't shown any signs ocrat-led government, Western Europe, have tra- ing the near-collapse of the
ed Saturday evening in Elu- of contamination, and the won about 15% of the vote. ditionally voted for reform- public health care system.
ru, an ancient city famous chief minister's office said Only two other parties oriented parties that seek Only 33% of potential Ro-
for its hand-woven prod- people not linked to the crossed the 5% threshold to to ally the county with the manian voters went to the
ucts. Since then, patients municipal water supply enter Parliament: the far- European Union main- polls Sunday, compared
have experienced symp- have also fallen ill. The pa- right AUR alliance, whose stream, but the pandemic with nearly 39.5 percent in
toms ranging from nausea tients are of different ages vocal opposition to coro- has apparently upended 2016. Observers blamed
and anxiety to loss of con- and have tested negative navirus restrictions resonat- traditional allegiances. the historically low turnout
sciousness, doctors said. for COVID-19 and other ed with close to 9% percent The National Liberals have on voters' fears of infection,
A 45-year-old man who viral diseases such as den- of voters, and the UDMR controlled Romania's mi- but also on general disil-
was hospitalized with symp- gue, chikungunya or her- party that represents the nority government since lusionment with Romania's
toms similar to epilepsy and pes. q country's Hungarian minor- October 2019 when the So- political class.q