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| MEDIA HEALDINES 16/06/2008 |
| (2008-06-16) |
| Last updated: 2008-06-17 20:57 EET |
Sunday, June 15th, was the day of the second round of local elections in Romania, when voters were called to the polls to elect mayors for 15 hundred localities, of which 183 towns and cities, capital Bucharest included. The leaders of the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party, the opposition Social Democratic Party and ruling National Liberal Party all claim victory and have already started to do the maths for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
According to the Bucharest newspapers issued on Monday, the biggest moral defeat was recorded by president Traian Basescu and the party he supports, the Liberal Democratic Party, whose candidate lost the battle for Bucharest mayor. The daily Gandul quotes the independent Sorin Oprescu, the winner of Sunday's election, as saying 'this day will remain in the history of Bucharest and of Romania as the day when the first independent candidate became mayor of the capital'.
The same newspaper headlines, quote 'a big blow to the Liberal Democratic Party in Bucharest: the independent Sorin Oprescu defeated by a landslide the Liberal Democrat Vasile Blaga'. Gandul sums up the conclusion drawn by most newspapers: until recently, Bucharest was proud of the fact that since 1990 it had not been ruled by the left and that before becoming head of state, Traian Basescu was mayor of Bucharest.
The daily Ziua headlines 'Bucharester voters bring the left wing to power'. The papers have also noticed that the results of these local elections indicate a return to the situation of the 1989 revolution. Gardianul reads: 'the independent Sorin Oprescu, a protégé of former president Ion Iliescu, conquered Bucharest exactly 18 years after the first miners' raid.
On June 13th – 15th, 1990, miners were brought to Bucharest to help Iliescu retain his power'. In the daily Curentul, journalist Tia Serbanescu says, under the headline 'verdict', that we now know what the Bucharest electorate is really like in the first elections held in Romania after entering the European Union. 'Considered the best informed, most exigent and open minded electorate in the country, Bucharest voters had to choose between confirming their status or let themselves be hypnotised by the childish stunts performed by Mr. Oprescu'.
The daily Cotidianul in its turn writes: 'The Social Democratic Party pops up the champagne, while the Liberal Democratic Party is getting ready for war', as the different groups within the latter are expected to settle their accounts with each other. Newspapers also write about the various events reported on election day: the death of a candidate or the very difficult voting process in a locality near Bucharest, where many of the voters are illiterate.
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