The Coalition leaders decided to give up their common candidate, Catalin Cirstoiu and to go to the Capital City Hall with separate candidacies from each party, after a marathon meeting of more than 12 hours. Therefore, Gabriela Firea – PSD and Sebastian Burduja – PNL, will run for the Bucharest mayor seat. The two candidates will not attack each other in the campaign, but will have a constructive campaign on solutions for Bucharest.
On the other hand, the PSD-PNL Alliance preserve common candidates for the Bucharest’s district and for the local council lists. It is a similar situation to the decisions taken for Bacău and Brașov.
As for the manager of the University Hospital Catalin Cirstoiu, he left the meeting at the Government without wanting to step back. “The decision is yours, not mine, I’m not giving up because I’ve never lost a race”, Cîrstoiu reportedly told the Social Democrats and the Liberals.
A HotNews.ro investigation exposed the fact that the manager of the public hospital also worked at his family’s private clinic. The law prohibits this, for the directors of state hospitals. Practically, the patients no longer benefited from gratuity, the money went to the Cîrstoiu family, and the public hospital run by him collected smaller amounts from the Health Center.
The other two candidates for the Capital City Hall, Nicusor Dan and Cristian Popescu Piedone reacted to the Coalition’s decision to withdraw Cirstoiu from the race and go with two separate candidates.
“Tough decision for the real estate mafia. Whose campaign should he finance?”, Nicusor Dan wrote on his Facebook page.
The PUSL candidate, Cristian Popescu Piedone, labelled the coalition’s decision as “a betrayal of the electorate” and “a political platform by which they support Nicușor Dan” to his detriment.
The current mayor of Sector 5 says that the polls showed the coalition leaders that they would lose the race for Bucharest, which is why they feared that a victory for him in the local elections would lead to “destroying them by voting in the autumn parliamentary elections “
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