Reuters, BUCHARESTRomanians yesterday went to the polls for a presidential runoff expected to re-elect centrist Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who has pledged to restart a judicial reform slowed down by successive Social Democrat (PSD) governments. While there have been no recent opinion polls, local bookmakers made Iohannis the short-odds favorite to beat former Romanian prime minister Viorica Dancila comfortably. “I will vote for a president to represent us, one that is respected both at home and abroad. The president’s powers are mostly limited to nominating a prime minister on the basis of who can command a majority, challenging laws in the Constitutional Court and appointing some chief prosecutors. Iohannis, a soft-spoken ethnic German and former mayor of Sibiu, became president in 2014.
