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Turnout was awful, only 31,84%. This covid circus might have something to do with it, I don't know how Romanians are disenchanted with politics in general.

I can't really find source with 100% of votes counted so I can only write estimates, but the ranking is clear.
PSD ~30%
PNL ~25,5%
USR-PLUS ~15,5%
AUR ~9%
RMDSZ (UDMR) ~6% (probably little below)
These parties reached the threshold of 5% for sure. I read that for PMP and PRO Romania that's just a little out of reach. I also read PMP did make it, barely, but did. Will see.

A probable setup for government is a coalition of PNL, USR-PLUS, and UDMR; if PMP is in then them too. The thing is that noone wants to make coalition with PSD (or AUR) so they could only govern if they got over half of the votes. (Actually less than 50% of the votes because they need the seats, and that will be decided after they "reweigh" the votes. Anyway.)

The unexpected black horse is the AUR, compared to themselves (they are new and small) it's a huge win. They are a nationalist bunch, with a program that includes the unification of Romania and Moldova. I think their logo is breddy well thought out, including their neighbouring republic both in Romania and in EU. Also yellow and black together are impressive colors. Too bad they are extremely anti-Hungarian. Oh well.
Their sudden popularity partially can be thanked for the Romanian emigres. About 3 million Romanian disappeared from Romania, they chiefly work and live in western EU now and AUR is very supported among them. Even their leader George Simion founded his movement in England. About 25% of AUR votes are gastarbeiter vote. Another factor is the low turnout, this always favors the smaller and/or radical parties since their supporters generally are more resolute - I suppose this helped RMDSZ as well.

Huh, I can kinda recall Moldova also had elections recently. Some grill won or something, no?