Gabriela Firea

Bucharest General Mayor Gabriela Firea said on Tuesday that Mercedes Benz has submitted a bid for the municipality's tender to purchase 130 hybrid buses. "Just today Mercedes-Benz submitted an, I'd say, significant bid for the 130 hybrid buses.

President Klaus Iohannis is at the top of the political personalities confidence ranking, followed by Bucharest mayor Gabriela Firea and Pro Romania leader Victor Ponta, found an INSCOP poll conducted between January 21 and February 5 at the commission of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

The budget proposed for the City Hall through the draft posted on the website of the Ministry of Finance is reduced by about 180 million euros, the fate of Bucharesters being decided "behind closed doors", General Mayor Gabriela Firea said on Wednesday before the meeting of the Association of Municipalities in Romania.

Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party on Monday dismissed seven cabinet ministers and sanctioned several high-profile party members, sparking concerns that the leadership is bent on purging all party members who have been critical of its strongman Liviu Dragnea.

Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Liviu Dragnea has received a confidence vote from 55 members of the National Executive Committee (CExN) while 8 voted against, PSD Deputy Secretary General Codrin Stefanescu announced on Friday evening.

He stated that 64 members of PSD's CExN were present of the total of 65 - the Defence Minister being out of the country.

Romanian Social Democrat leader Liviu Dragnea survived a no-confidence vote in the party's Executive Committee on Friday, after several top members of the faction leadership asked for his resignation as party chief because of his graft record that lead to low scores in opinion polls.

Romanian prosecutors on Friday summoned several senior police chiefs to notify them that they are being prosecuted for coordinating the violent intervention and use of tear gas on an anti-government protest on August 10 that left hundreds wounded.

Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Liviu Dragnea denied on Friday, prior to the PSD's National Executive Committee (CExN) meeting, that he will propose the exclusion from the party of those who challenged him.

The emblematic marble fountains in Bucharest's central Unirii Square have undergone a 7-million-euros facelift and reopened on Thursday night with a multimedia show and a concert of the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra.

The fountains facing the Palace of Parliament were closed at the end of May for refurbishment by ApaNova, the company that handles Bucharest's water and sewage system.

The signatories of an open letter through which the "immediate resignation" of Liviu Dragnea from the positions of PSD (Social Democratic Party, main at rule, ed.