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| NEW MAYORS IN ROMANIA 20/06/2008 |
| (2008-06-20) |
| Last updated: 2008-06-23 13:55 EET |
The left wing Social Democratic Party, in opposition won the largest number of seats in the local elections, 1,138. Also in the opposition, the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party won 908 mayor seats, while the ruling National Liberal Party won 706.
In four villages in Ilfov, Gorj and Teleorman counties in the south and in Bacau, in the east, the local elections will be repeated due either to flagrant irregularities in the first round of voting or to a perfect, as the two finalists received the same number of votes. In the rest of the country, the new mayors, councillors and presidents of county councils started being sworn in and taking over their responsibilities.
As of this Thursday, Bucharest also has a new mayor: the former Social Democrat Sorin Oprescu who ran for mayor of Bucharest as an independent because his party preferred to endorse a different candidate. Oprescu’s programme for the largest, most dynamic, most crowded and polluted city in the country has three major objectives:
“One strategic component refers to the development and modernisation of Bucharest, one is devoted to the citizens, who lie at the heat of all our decisions, to the quality of life in Bucharest in terms of environment, and people’s health and leisure. I rely on city councillors and the competent people in the city hall, the media, the representatives of the parties in the General City Council, and will respect the law taking into account the citizen‘s public spirit and last but not least, a correct and transparent negotiation when making decisions. “
Beyond the polite statements, commentators warn, however that Oprescu starts his terms at a time when working in the local administration will become an extreme sport. In Bucharest, everything remains to be done, from fixing the roads to decongesting traffic, building a water purification station and a sewerage system in Bucharest’s marginal districts, which have been neglected so far and have turned into genuine ghettos in the meantime. All spiced up with the daily urban guerrilla and politics.
That’s because in the General City Council the Liberal Democratic Party and the populist extra-parliamentary New Generation Party have already created a majority hostile to the new mayor, an alliance which in strictly mathematical terms his allies in the Social Democratic Party and the National Liberal Party can not annihilate.
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