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Seen obliquely, from across the street, the impression that the construction of any town hall in the vast majority of the more than 16,000 cities, communes and villages in Romania produces in common mortals is one of deplorable banality. Broadly speaking, we are talking about the same standard, white-gray construction, located in the central street of the town, with the tricolor attached to the entrance and the eternal sign that says, as the case may be, “Town Hall” or “Town Hall” : this is the milestone enduring the latest political ambitions sparked by the 2020 municipal elections. The final season runs on Sunday, September 27, in all polling stations, starting at 7:00 a.m. and ending at 9:00 p.m. 00, once the polls close.
The blazing amalgam of small but stormy local confrontations, which always unfold on the periphery of the main political fronts, is, in addition to the inevitable stains of color, an extremely faithful litmus test for Romanian politics: from here, from the grass One can therefore see the real level of “contamination” of political life, in terms of resources, ambitions, spirit of home and above all imposture.
Following the model of the Fantastic League for Cotroceni, Digi24.ro is trying this time to present the aspiring “little league” of local politics who have somehow managed to increase their radar footprint in the campaign and do, voluntarily or no, the leap beyond the wall of anonymity. To all of them, beyond the ambition of accessing a chair of mayor or local councilor, they are united by the way in which they managed to gain notoriety through less common, controversial words or events or, simply, all the laughs.
Because the one charm of politics that no one can argue with is that it is a seemingly inexhaustible source of humor.
We laugh, we smile, let’s rebel in some places and remember
Bush of the City Hall. What bush? Well let’s count them, Fănică cones
With almost mathematical certainty, the future mayor of the Al comunâna commune in Sibiu county will be a gentleman named Bucșă. The only unknowns in this political equation are the party that will propel Bucsa to the office of mayor and, eventually, whether the future mayor will wear a mustache or not. And this is because the candidates of the main parties (PNL, PSD, USR PLUS) share the same surname. Yes, you guessed it: Bush.
To make things even more interesting, the PSD and NLP candidates are named exactly the same: Ioan Bucșă. Instead, the USR PLUS candidate has another christening name, Aron, which made USR President Dan Barna exclaim:
“USR PLUS is different! We have proof”
By looking closely at the three election posters, fans of the “Notice the Differences” games can also identify other physical elements that make the USR PLUS candidate different from the other two. Those listed with the “Expert” level, in turn, are invited to specify the differences between NLP and PSD candidates.
Another RSU candidate, Daniela Dolha, also showed that she is “different” from the other candidates, but chose to do it in a slightly more dramatic way: she confused Turda with Câmpia Turzii.
Under Murphy’s Extended Law, if something can go wrong, it will go wrong in the worst possible sequence.
In the case of the USR candidate, “the worst possible sequence” turned out to be the candidacy proposal: right here Dolha wrote, in black and white, that she is going to run for mayor of Turda, and not for Câmpia Turzii, as she should have been. .
The bug has since been fixed, the legend remains.
The incredible phenomenon of the candidate appearing simultaneously on posters of different parties
In the Suharău commune of Botoșani county, the current mayor, Marcel Chelariu, thought of having an eclectic approach and satisfying all the political tastes of the citizens.
Chelariu appears on the NLP and PSD banners.
“I put up banners with the mayor and myself two weeks ago. If the mayor made the decision to meet with Mrs. Federovici (PSD), it means that it is his option and I have nothing to comment. What can I comment on?” NLP Botoșani leader Costel Șoptică stated.
The “mayor” is running as an independent and continues with the idea that “people cannot be the same color.”
“I know very well the opinions in Suharău. There are people who lean to the right, towards NLP and in discussions with me they will vote like this, for NLP,” explained Chelariu. “There are people who never vote with NLP and vote for PSD. So it is not an inconvenience from this point of view. Is that normal, if I’m independent shouldn’t I do that? “, Said.
A local council candidate from Suhurlui, Galati County, tried to up the ante and run for double, from two different parties: PMP and Pro Romania.
Initially, it was suspected that it was a coincidence, in the Bucşă model of the Sibiu. “Of course, I did the verifications and found based on the other personal data that it is actually the same person,” said Galaţi County Election Office spokesperson Andi Mihalache, who specified that “having the candidacy presented both so much in one party as in another, the candidacy of the respective person is null ”.
Slipper, clown and troll
Tudor Helmut Schinagel, known as Tubel, is running independently for Mayor of Sector 1 in Bucharest. Under the motto “I don’t have it, but I want it,” he wants to be mayor and, implicitly, rich, so he doesn’t have to work anymore. His electoral sign is the slap. His Facebook profile is full of photo tricks and various memes featuring Tubel in various poses: in the pool with Donald Trump, on the podium with Emmanuel Macron, or with Pope Francis kissing Tubel’s hand.
There are also professional clowns running for mayor, such as Bobo the clown, an independent candidate for mayor of Suceava. Using his name from Andrei Neşculescu’s ballot, he managed to collect the required number of signatures, and his candidacy was validated by the County Elections Office.
Neşculescu has been a member of NLP for the past 17 years. During this period, he was invited to maintain the atmosphere at various events organized by the local NLP affiliate. Last year, at such an event, the local press wrote that it had children present at the inauguration of a playground chanting “Mr. Mayor!” while the mayor of NLP, Ioan Lungu, was exercising on a machine.
A few days ago, Necşulescu trolled a conference of the PSD candidate for mayor.
“Fuck everyone!” Was his conclusion.
The Budău-Căscătău couple and the Strâmbeanu solution
“Good morning thrifty people.” The phrase ends with a smiley face and is accompanied by the following image:
The motto is simple, made up of two nouns, one proper and one common: “Ruben Budau Agriculture”.
The image shows the silhouette of a man dressed in traditional costumes discreetly touching a tomato. The man could be the PSD’s candidate for Arad County Council. No one knows for sure because his face, enveloped in an almost angelic aura, is brutally cropped, fixed on his nose.
However, we can admire Budău on another poster, where he appears perched in the foreground next to Rivelino Căscătău, candidate for mayor of Ineu on an electoral poster.
Modeled after the pearls of the ferry, the jokes related to the less common names of the candidates for the different city councils of the country are as old as the world. Some candidates have decided to step forward and turn their semantic flaw into an electoral advantage.
Călin Strîmbeanu, for example, is running on behalf of USR PLUS for the Întorsura Buzăului City Council. Its motto is: “We are changing the course”
Broadly speaking, these local elections will be a competition in which three political parties compete for the podium: PNL, PSD and the USR PLUS Alliance. Other parties like PMP or PRO Romania are trying to tweak some mentions, enough to avoid the red light of ridiculous demotion, while the UDMR is on the path of political autonomy in the already established counties: Covasna and Harghita.
“After 30 years without us, I think they want us back,” is the slogan of the Communist Party, which is also running in the elections. The CP candidate, Gheorghe Mărculescu, runs in jeans and the red shirt indispensable for the Arad City Council.
The deadly enemies of the communists of yesteryear, the peasants, also fight on the periphery and hope to rise again as the “Pheonix” bird.
Sometimes a letter change can cause a disaster from which nothing will ever be reborn. Or it will never produce anything. Although in the meantime, a clear head of the PNTCD managed to straighten the pocinog and the Phoenix Bird regained its rights.
