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The Social Democratic Party lost control of Bucharest and was left with only one mayor: Daniel Băluță in sector 4. The USR-PLUS alliance won the first two sectors, the richest in the Capital.
Robert Negoiță kept his mayor seat at 3, where he participated as an independent. The National Liberal Party obtained, as PSD, a single mayor’s seat, in sector 6.
The most unexpected result came from sector 5, where Cristian Popescu Piedone, convicted in the Collective case, is once again mayor.
Clotilde Armând won the elections against PSD candidate Dan Tudorache. They received less than 2 percent and 1,500 votes.
This morning, his opponent wrote on Facebook that he is ahead with 200 votes.
The Romanian and French dual citizenship candidate, born in Guadeloupe and educated in Paris, feared a repeat of the 2016 scenario. Then, on election night, she thought she was the winner. In the morning, however, she learned that she lost by a small margin to Dan Tudorache herself.
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Armand will have to resign from the mandate of MEP that cost him a total of 68,000 euros last year. Before entering politics, he worked in the private sector for infrastructure consulting firms. In fact, last year he earned almost 100,000 euros as an authorized natural person. She is married to a Romanian mathematician whom she met at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT for short. They moved to Bucharest together in 1999.
Radu Mihaiu won in sector 2 with a difference of 5 percent over Dan Cristian Popescu, former deputy mayor of PNL, who switched to PSD before the campaign.
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Mihaiu was Secretary of State in the Ministry of European Funds in the Ciolos government and is a shareholder in several IT companies.
In sector 3, the result was predictable. Robert Negoiță won a new term, not from PSD, but from Pro Romania ally.
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Negoita was critical of Liviu Dragnea and Viorica Dancilă, but close to Gabriela Firea. Before the elections, he resigned from the party that now wants him back.
Negoiță entered politics in abundance. Much of the wealth comes from real estate. However, he did not pay VAT every time he should have and was enforced by the tax office.
Sector 4 is the only one in which PSD recorded a landslide victory. Daniel Băluţa won the second term with more than 50 percent.
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Băluţa has a good image in the sector due to investments in streets, markets and schools. His former councilor Cristian Zarescu is the one who registered Nicusor Dan when he intervened for the “dog thief” in the case of the construction of the Children’s Park.
According to Libertatea’s investigations, Daniel Băluţa’s relatives in the mayor’s office have ties to the underworld clans in the sector, which allegedly infiltrated the Local Police.
The toughest fight was for Sector 5. Marian Vanghelie took from the percentages of the favorite: PSD Mayor Daniel Florea. Cristian Băcanu of PNL was close to victory, but in the end the fight was won by Cristian Popescu Piedone.
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The former mayor of Sector 4 campaigned on the grass in poor areas. He used all kinds of props from scooters to scale models with Mayor Daniel Florea, which he towed through troubled streets.
However, he did not mention anything about the Collective File, which imposed a sentence in the first instance to 8 years in prison for abuse of office.
Piedone is considered one of the culprits of the fire that killed 64 young people. He then promised to withdraw completely from political life and renounce the nickname “Piedone”. 5 years, a conviction and a makeover then came back on a high note, as if nothing had happened.
On Sunday night, after learning the results, he wrote on Facebook that “The judgment of the people has prevailed and justice and truth have come to light”. The trial is ongoing in the Court of Appeal, where the families of the victims have been waiting for more than 5 years for the guilty to pay.
Sector 6 was won by the PNL member Ciprian Ciucu in front of the incumbent mayor, the PSD member Gabriel Mutu.
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Ciucu is in the second candidacy. He entered politics supported by Monica Macovei. He previously worked in consulting and civil society.
The capital’s sectors have some of the largest budgets in Romania. If spent properly there is enough money for schools, hospitals, roads, parks and buses for this city to breathe, be more friendly to its inhabitants and closer to their needs and expectations.
