Mayor of Bucharest

The PSD (Social Democratic Party) leader, Viorica Dancila, has said that, in her opinion, Gabriela Firea will not run in the presidential elections as an independent, for this would mean she would "lose the mayor tenure." "I don't believe Gabriela Firea will run as an independent.

The General Mayor of Bucharest social-democrat Gabriela Firea on Sunday said the Liberals who participate in the PNL Bucharest branch's convention are "political dwarfs" adding that they have gathered "to denigrate all that is done and built in this period in the country and in Bucharest."

According to exit polls, the PSD won Sunday's local elections, as previously predicted, securing 37.5 per cent of the vote and giving it a boost ahead of parliamentary elections later this year, while the right-wing National Liberal Party, PNL won a projected 28 per cent.

Romanians were choosing 3,200 mayors, 41 chairs of district councils and more than 40,000 council members.

Investigations by the National Anti-Corruption Directorate, the DNA, have not stopped many Romanian politicians from campaigning for office in the June elections.

Sorin Oprescu, Mayor of Bucharest, has been detained by anti-corruption authorities, media outlets report.

Oprescu is suspected of having taken bribes to the tune of EUR 25 000 from companies that worked for the city hall.

Bucharest City General Mayor Sorin Oprescu believes the George Enescu Festival in the city is turning the city into a capital of music.

The Romanian capital's mayor Sorin Oprescu said on Monday that the County Council chairs and the mayors should not act politically.

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