Unlikely winners turn up in Romania’s EP election Critics mock and sympathizers defend President Traian Basescu’s daughter, a model who has now won an EP seat.By Paul Ciocoiu for Southeast European Times in Bucharest – 12/06/09 Although turnout figures show the EP elections failed to captivate voters, some of the individual candidates did. Romania fielded a number of unusual candidates, several of whom went on to win seats. Among them is Elena Basescu, a model who happens to be the daughter of the president. Basescu, often dubbed the Romanian Paris Hilton, won a parliament seat as an independent with 4.2% of the vote. However, she will align herself with her…