BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta won a confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday, as expected, securing a new mandate to push through a series of IMF-backed reforms aimed at speeding up growth in the European Union's second-poorest country.
Ponta's Social Democrat-led (PSD) government won a vote in both houses by a combined 346 votes to 192, having partly restored its majority with new allies following the departure last week of the Liberal party.
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