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The people of Bucharest will go to the polls on September 27 to elect the fifteenth mayor of the city, from the post-communist period. But few remember who the first mayors of the Capital were, after the 1989 Revolution, when Romanians could hardly learn what freedom is. Even fewer know that the first mayor of Bucharest in a democracy went to live in the United States.
The first mayor of the Capital after the Revolution of 1989
The first mayor of Bucharest after December was Dr. Dan Predescu, former president of the Bucharest Municipal Council of the National Salvation Front. Employed as a researcher at the Institute for Cell Biology and Pathology, Dan Predescu was among the first group of people to enter Bucharest City Hall on December 22, 1989.
Dan Predescu was appointed mayor on January 21, 1990 by the assembly of the Bucharest Municipal Council, consisting of 49 members, who voted unanimously. He was fired on July 23, 1990. After leaving, he left the country to settle in the United States. He lives in a Chicago suburb, Oak Park, with his wife and daughter, and is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University.
During his short tenure, he had several clashes with protesters in the University Square, of whom he said in an interview published by the Dimineața newspaper on June 6, 1990, that he “does not have a normal mental stability”:
Dan Predescu: […]. Currently, I am concerned about the hygiene of the University Square area, the blocking of a major traffic artery that creates a lot of inconvenience for the residents of Bucharest. After the earthquake a few days ago, we had real difficulties in terms of the movement of citizens, the transport of the sick, the supply. I personally was among the approximately 50 protesters in the Plaza de la Universidad and I only asked them to leave the way free. I am not interested in its demonstration, I can stay there if I think so, but to release the road to resume traffic in the city center.
Journalist: What do you think of those who are still in the Plaza? I heard voices saying that you had the courage to go among them. Pictures of the not-so-gentle meeting could be seen on television …
Dan Predescu: I don’t know the feeling of fear. However, I am not a brave man. I was there to ask you to understand that it creates real difficulties for us, in addition to the pathetic aspect that they give to the University Square. I don’t know who those protesters are. A dialogue with them is quite difficult to achieve. Some of them do not have normal mental stability.
Journalist: Do you speak as a doctor or mayor?
Dan Predescu: You don’t have to be a doctor or mayor to figure this out.
Journalist: However, as a doctor, what can you tell us about the hunger strikers?
Dan Predescu: The hunger strike seems like an act of ostentation to me. It can also be done at home or in the hospital. I’m going on a hunger strike under medical supervision. Those in the square refuse to be transported to the hospital, they smoke and after so many days their condition can be very worrying… Medicine is forced to fight for the life of man, even against his will ”.
The mayors of democratic Bucharest
Ștefan-Constantin Ciurel
A member of the FSN, he was mayor of Bucharest from July 24, 1990 to November 16, 1990, appointed by the Petre Roman government. He graduated from the Construction Institute in Bucharest in 1956, starting his career at the opening of the mine in Căpeni, Baraolt. He was director of works in the construction of the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest in 1965, later coordinator of works in the Mangalia-Neptun area and general director of the construction plant of the Capital. Since 1983 he has been in charge of coordinating the execution of works in the Casa del Pueblo, the National Library and the National Museum of History. After December 22, 1989, he remained as technical director of the General Directorate of Production and Services of the Ministry of National Economy.
In the short period that he was mayor of the Capital, he was in charge of improving the water supply, preparing the documentation and the work front for new housing constructions, building new subway lines, moving to the production units of the stores of grocery stores in the city and expand the autonomy of the sector.
Nicolae Viorel Oproiu
On November 16, 1990, Ştefan Ciurel resigned, following criticism from the Government for the lack of firmness in the implementation of reforms related to sanitation, health, environmental protection and urban development. On the other hand, according to the law no. 5 of July 19, 1990 on the administration of counties, municipalities, cities and communes until the organization of local elections, the Prime Minister appointed Nicolae Viorel Oproiu mayor of the Capital on November 18.
The first working meeting between the mayor of the capital, Nicolae Oproiu, and the President of Romania, Ion Iliescu, took place on March 22. The conclusions drawn from the debates were the need for closer collaboration between the mayors of the sector and the general and that of an urban planning law.
Doru Pană
Since September 2, 1991, the city of Bucharest had Doru Pană as its mayor, appointed by Prime Minister Petre Roman. The capital city council had to solve a series of key objectives, such as completing the construction of houses, modernizing the infrastructure, forming the city council of a demographic policy in conjunction with other governmental factors and establishing a coherent policy of social assistance provision.
On October 30, 1991, a meeting took place between the President of Romania and the Mayor General of the Capital, when the measures relating to the supply of food to the population during winter and of electrical and thermal energy were discussed.
Halaicu Mane
In Bucharest, after the first round of voting on February 9, 1992, of the 33 candidates, the representative of the Democratic Convention, Crin Halaicu, who obtained 45.64% of the votes, and the FSN candidate, Cazimir Ionescu They remained in the fight for the position of mayor general. , which obtained 31.45 percent of the valid votes cast
Victor Ciorbea
In the local elections, in the second round, on June 16, 1996, he was elected Mayor General of the Capital, representing the CDR. He obtained the post of mayor of the Capital, with 56.74% of the valid votes cast, thus defeating his opponent, Ilie Năstase (PDSR), who obtained only 43.26% of the votes.
He was appointed Prime Minister on November 19, 1996 and, after his validation in Parliament, on December 11, 1996, he was sworn in before the President of Romania, Emil Constantinescu, on December 12, 1996.
After Victor Ciorbea became prime minister on December 11, 1996, Viorel Lis was appointed interim mayor. In relation to the dual status of Víctor Ciorbea as Mayor General of the Capital and Prime Minister of Romania, numerous controversies and legal and constitutional debates arose. On March 30, 1998, he resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Romania, which was accepted by President Constantinescu. At the same time, he submitted his resignation from the position of Mayor General of the Capital.
Viorel Lis
Viorel Lis was Acting Mayor General of Bucharest, between December 11, 1996 and November 10, 1998.
On November 10, 1998, the Central Electoral Table ruled in favor of the CDR candidate, Viorel Lis, after analyzing the minutes and counting the canceled votes. Thus, with 329,620 validly cast favorable votes, Viorel Lis managed to eliminate the interim name from the first round of her title, becoming the elected mayor of the Capital until 2000. In percentages, Viorel Lis obtained 50.5% of the votes. , against the second place candidate, Sorin Oprescu of the PDSR, who obtained 322,825 votes, that is, 49.5%.
Traian Basescu
Traian Băsescu obtained the first mandate of Mayor General of the Capital after the second round of local elections on June 18, 2000. He obtained the mandate of Mayor of the Capital in the second round, obtaining 50.69% of the votes, in a very short distance from Sorin Oprescu, the PDSR candidate, who obtained 49.31%.
In the first place, in the first round of the elections, since June 2000, in the preferences of the Bucharest electorate was the PDSR candidate, Sorin Oprescu, with 260,689 votes (41.16 percent), followed by the PD candidate, Traian Băsescu, with 108,862 (17, 18 percent) and Călin Cătălin Chiriţă (CDR), who obtained 104,719 (16.53 percent).
On June 6, 2004, the Mayor General of the Capital Traian Băsescu, candidate of the Justice and Truth Alliance PNL-PD, was elected in the first round with 417,153 valid votes cast (54.95%).
Then, on December 12, 2004, Traian Băsescu was elected President of Romania, Deputy Mayor Răzvan Murgeanu was appointed Acting Mayor of the capital.
The period that Traian Băsescu spent in the City Hall of the capital was marked by tensions, such as the elimination of kiosks and the operation of collecting community dogs in special centers. During all this time, their disputes with the members of the General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest (CGMB) were permanent, says Agerpres. From this perspective, Traian Băsescu declares that the Local Public Administration Law must be amended in such a way as to ensure the mayor a 51 percent majority in the local council, in order to complete the program promised to citizens.
Răzvan Murgeanu
The Deputy Mayor Răzvan Murgeanu was appointed, on December 23, 2004, by the General Council of Bucharest (CGMB), with 48 votes out of 51, as Acting Mayor General in place of Traian Băsescu, President-elect of Romania.
Răzvan Murgeanu was the only proposal to assume the functions of mayor general, which came from a municipal councilor of the PNL-PD Alliance.
Răzvan Murgeanu served as an interim until April 3, 2005, when new local elections were held to appoint the mayor.
Adriean videanu
Adriean Videanu stood for the post of mayor of Bucharest, a vacancy after the election of Traian Basescu as the country’s president.
Adriean Videanu won the first round of the elections on April 3, 2005, with 53.01% of the valid votes cast.
He held this position until June 2008.
Sorin Oprescu
Sorin Oprescu became mayor general of the Capital, after beating the liberal democrat Vasile Blaga in the second round of local elections on June 15, 2008. In the Capital, the independent candidate Sorin Oprescu obtained 315,981 votes in the second round ( 56.55%), and the PD-L candidate, Vasile Blaga, 242,760 votes (43.45%).
In the first round, on June 1, 2008, the independent candidate Sorin Oprescu obtained 30.12%, while the liberal democrat Vasile Blaga, 29.56% of the votes.
Sorin Oprescu was suspended from office due to his criminal problems.
Ștefănel Dan Marin
He was acting on behalf of UNPR in place of Sorin Oprescu, but he quickly resigned and was replaced by another acting one, on behalf of PNL
Ioan Răzvan Sava
Gabriela firea
The current mayor of the Capital has been in office for four years, after winning the 2016 local elections.
Publisher: AVD
