By bne IntelliNews Romania’s ruling coalition, comprising the centre-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) and centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL), confirmed its leading position in the European Parliament election held on June 9. Candidates for the two parties also scored a landslide in the local elections held on the same day, despite failing to take the capital Bucharest from independent Nicusor Dan. The ruling coalition received 54% of the votes cast in the European Parliament elections, according to the exit poll carried out by Curs and Avangarde. That puts the two parties in a strong …