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| MEDIA HEADLINES 02/06/2008 |
| (2008-06-02) |
| Last updated: 2008-06-03 15:37 EET |
“Fierce battles” the daily ADEVARUL headlines, summarising Sunday's local elections in Romania and forecasting that “only now, before the run-off, will the election campaign heat up.” The aforementioned newspaper adds that in Bucharest “the competition gains an outstanding emotional value.” Shoulder to shoulder after the first round, Liberal Democrat Vasile Blaga and Social Democrat dissident Sorin Oprescu will fight a “tough battle, with far-reaching consequences,” COTIDIANUL writes.
GANDUL claims that, shortly after polling stations closed, “Oprescu was at Blaga's throat,” warning him that “as of now, kid gloves are off.” Using the same warfare metaphors, GARDIANUL is certain that “the ultimate war is waged by Traian Basescu and Ion Iliescu.” Many analysts agree that the two finalists are in fact projections of the former and current presidents. Basescu, who is still close to the Democratic Liberal Party and the City Hall, his employer between 2000 and 2004, did not hesitate to step out of the theoretical neutrality of the presidential office and to explicitly endorse Blaga.
And Iliescu, marginalised in the Social Democratic Party in recent years, is likely preparing to strike back, after the current leaders backed a candidate who only got one-third of Oprescu's votes. The duel between the Liberal Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party is also key to the competition in the six Bucharest districts.
EVENIMENTUL ZILEI notes that each won a district mayor office in the first round, and in the remaining four districts the Social Democratic Party has two finalists and the Liberal Democratic Party four. Looking at the electoral map of Romania, newspapers note the predictability in major cities, where many incumbent mayors won a second term in office in the first round.
Content with the performance of their mayors, voters endorsed Emil Boc in Cluj, Dorin Florea in Targu Mures (both in central Romania) and Antonie Solomon in Craiova (south) or the Social Democrats' Radu Mazare in Constanta. Particularly spectacular are the victories secured by Christian Democrat Gheorghe Ciuhandu in Timisoara (south-west) and the German ethnic Klaus Johannis in Sibiu (central Romania). Because on the one hand, most of the German community has left Romania, while the Christian Democratic voters have largely turned to other parties.
As for rural communities, ZIUA looks at a relevant example, and speaks about the “war of real estate and property scalpers” in the Social Democratic Party and the New Generation Party. In order to get their people in office, these “have turned Stefanesti commune in Ilfov (south) into a battlefield.” Voters here “stormed the two polling stations, broke windows and tore doors apart.” What was driving them, the newspaper explains, was the price bid for a stamp on a ballot. Which is disclosed by ROMANIA LIBERA: 300 euros.
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