Romania's Prime Minister and Social Liberal Union (USL) alliance leader Victor Ponta smiles after the first exit polls in local elections in Bucharest June 10, 2012. Romanians gave Ponta's new leftist government strong backing in local elections on Sunday, sending a clear message that they had had enough of austerity. Ponta's USL alliance won up to 65 percent of votes in some areas and more than 50 percent in some big cities, exit polls showed, in the first electoral test since it came to power last month on a wave of discontent over austerity measures in the EU's second-poorest economy. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel (ROMANIA - Tags: ELECTIONS POLITICS)