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USR-PLUS candidate for mayor of Timisoara, Dominic Fritz, was declared the winner of the local elections on September 27. According to some provisional results, Dominic Fritz would have received more than 50% of the votes cast by the people of Timisoara on Sunday.
Who is Dominic Fritz, the new mayor of Timisoara?
Dominic Fritz was born in Germany and says of him that he grew up in a town south of the Black Forest in Germany. At the age of 16 he received a scholarship from the German Parliament, residing in the United States for a year.
At the age of 19, Dominic Fritz first came to Romania, to Timi aoara, where he volunteered for a year in a children’s home.
He studied political and administrative science as a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation at the University of Konstanz (Germany), Sciences Po Paris (France) and the University of York (England). My graduate thesis was on social policies in Romania. The master’s thesis focused on the capacity of public administration in post-war countries.
From 2016-2019, Dominic Fritz was the former president Köhler’s chief of staff, being responsible for the strategic planning of the former president’s activities, leading his team, political communication and collaboration with various national and international institutions, according to the presentation in the dominicprimar website. .com.
From 2009 to 2019, he was a member of the Green Party (center party, environmentalist) in Germany. Between 2011-2012 he was elected to the local office in Frankfurt am Main, where, among other things, he co-organized the campaign for local elections.
Dominic Fritz says he became a politician without realizing it. “Being the third child in a family of 8 siblings, my childhood was a constant negotiation between the personal needs of all and the objectives of the small community to which I belonged: my family. I learned to speak my mind, to look for allies to ideas. and respect (a bit harsh, which is true) the fact that not everything goes through my head “says Dominic Fritz.
In his spare time, Dominic Fritz claims to be interested in music (he plays piano and cello, composes, conducts), reads, and rides a bicycle. Dominic Fritz took over the Timisoara Evangelical Project in Romania.
Personally, Dominic Fritz is in a relationship with a UN diplomat.
Dominic Fritz celebrated victory in Victoriei Square in Timisoara
USR candidate for Timişoara City Council, Dominic Fritz, enjoyed victory in local elections in Timişoara’s Victoriei Square, alongside several hundred people.
“You said we can’t win. But we tried and we succeeded. From today we delete the words from the vocabulary of Timisoara. From today we are not paralyzed by the fear of being alone there because we are no longer there. “Thank you for your vote, for your trust, for your energy. You are the inspiration that made this campaign a success. Thank you. I want to thank the delegates who are still counting the votes in the section as of now. Not yet we know the end result. ” Timişoara has made a new revolution today, today Timişoara has finally voted to end the 30-year transition period, and it is an incredible honor for me that you elected me as your mayor. He came here for the first time in 2003, he did not speak a word of Romanian. For the first time, Romania elected a mayor who was not born in Romania “, Dominic Fritz said.
The USR candidate added that Timisoara is and will be a European city.
“The people of Timişoara said today very clearly and bluntly, Timişoara was, is and will be a European city. And Timisoara wrote not only history in Romania, but throughout Europe. Today, a European city has elected a European mayor and we send a very clear signal that Timisoara and Banat belong historically and culturally to Europe. Romania belongs to Europe. Our administration will be a model for the whole of Romania, a model for an open, transparent and digitized European administration. That’s for you, “Fritz said.
Dominic Fritz said that he will be the mayor of all the people of Timisoara.
“I want to say very clearly, I will be the mayor of all the people of Timisoara. And in this sense I want to address those who did not vote for me today. I will fight every day to earn your trust and I will build this community with you. It will not be easy. Things will not be easy. they cannot change overnight and I feel a great responsibility for your expectations on my shoulders and that is why I ask you to get involved, to be part of this European Timisoara. Don’t wait for the mayor to change everything. Be part of the change I want to make this appeal to all the people of Timişoara, here in Timişoara, but also to those who left the country. If you have ideas, experience, something to contribute, you will find an open door in our country, in Timisoara. Get involved! “Fritz also claimed.
