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2020 Bucharest Local Elections
The 2020 Bucharest local elections took place on 27 September. A total of 3,235 candidates participated for a variety of offices, including General Mayor and General Councilors of the Municipality of Bucharest, as well as mayors and local councilors for each of the city's 6 sectors. Municipal results Local councils results Sector 1 Sector 2 Sector 3 Sector 4 Sector 5 Sector 6 References {{2020 Romanian local elections September 2020 in Romania 2020 elections in Romania Local elections in Romania 2020s in Bucharest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Bucharest Local Elections
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Green Party (Romania)
The Green Party – The Greens (), often shortened to The Greens () is a Romanian political party that ideologically follows green politics and environmentalism. The Green Party is the only political party in Romania that is a full-rights member of the European Green Party (EGP), and is represented by the Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Ideology The Green Party has progressive views on abortion and LGBT rights but more conservative views on drug use and religion and from an economic point of view it is centre-left to left-wing, being among the few centre-left political organizations in Romania. Before the 2022 Congress, the party was economically much more centre-right. Social The Green Party supports environmental causes, such as reforestation and reductions in carbon emissions. It supports an extension in individual rights as well as greater separation of church and state, including a gradual removal of all state funding for religious i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Popescu Piedone
Cristian Victor Popescu Piedone (born 15 February 1963) is a Romanian businessman and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest's Sector 4 from 2008 until 4 November 2015, when he resigned following the Colectiv nightclub fire and the subsequent 2015 Romanian protests and in 2020, he served as the mayor of Sector 5. In present, he is the president of the National Authority for Consumer Protection (Romania). Biography Early life Piedone was born in Bucharest, but he spent his early years in Cairo, due to the fact that his parents were working at the Romanian Embassy in Egypt. He returned to Romania when he was 7 years old, in order to start going to school. He dropped out after he finished the 8th grade. Marian Vanghelie declared that, in the 1980s, Piedone was the head of the House of Orders, which delivered food for the communist elite: the nomenklatura, party officials and Securitate officers. He also claimed that Piedone was caught by the police stealing and was ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihail Neamțu
Mihail Neamțu (; born 16 April 1978), is a Romanian writer, philosopher, theologian, and politician. He received a PhD in theology from King's College London and has written several books on politics, religion, and culture. A conservative, he was elected in the Chamber of Deputies (Romania), Chamber of Deputies in 2024 Romanian legislative election, 2024 as a member of Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR. On June 23rd, 2025, he published a photo on social media of Oana Țoiu, the newly nominated Minister of Foreign Affairs. This was considered an inappropriate action, as Neamțu had altered the photo in a misleading way, making the minister look very different from reality. This is Mihail Neamțu. Life and career Family and political awakenings Born in 1978 in Făgăraș, a city at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, Mihail Neamțu had a first-hand experience of communism, an ideology which he often described in harsh pejorative terms . His mother, Emilia, was a school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Negoiță
Robert Sorin Negoiță (born 29 March 1972) is a Romanian politician and businessman. Placed on one of the top spots of ''Capital'' magazine's richest Romanians list, he is currently the mayor of Bucharest's Sector 3. Life and career Family and education A native of Măneciu, Prahova County, Negoiță finished high school at the age of 31. He graduated Law School (Bioterra University) in 2007 and Economics and Tourism (Romanian-American University).Camera Deputaților - Robert Sorin Negoiță, Curriculum Vitae , accessed May 2, 2012 His parents, Ilie and Lidia Negoiță, we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neculai Onțanu
Neculai Onțanu (born September 13, 1949) is a Romanian politician who has served as mayor of Bucharest's Sector 2. Biography Born in Pângărați, Neamț County, Onțanu worked as construction worker between 1968 and 1995, becoming a construction foreman on apartment buildings construction sites. In 1986, he was admitted as part-time learner in the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy, the university which trained cadres of the Communist Party of Romania. After the Romanian Revolution, Onțanu joined the Socialist Party of Labour, becoming its vicepresident, as well as the president of the Bucharest organization. Between 1995 and 1996, he was a parliamentary expert at the Chamber of Deputies, while between 1996 and 2000, he was a member of the General Council of Bucharest. He resigned from the party in May 1999 and joined the Party of Social Democracy in Romania. Onțanu was the Party of Social Democracy in Romania's candidate during the 2000 local elections, which he won in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Liberal Humanist Party
The Social Liberal Humanist Party (, PUSL), formerly Humanist Power Party (Social-Liberal) (, PPU-SL) is a centrist political party in Romania. It was founded in 2015 by members of the Conservative Party (PC) who did not want to merge with the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), led by Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. History In the summer of 2015, the Conservative Party (PC), led by Daniel Constantin, merged with the Liberal Reformist Party (PLR), creating the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE). At the same time, PC MEP Maria Grapini opposed this decision, criticizing the disappearance of the party's ideology and announced that she would join a new group, the Party of Humanist Power (PPU). Ideology When it launched in 2015, the party claimed to have a centre-right political doctrine. Later, the party began to reject the left-right political spectrum, promoting conservative humanism and traditional values as the third way. The departure of several people from the People's Mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clotilde Armand
Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand (born 28 June 1973) is a French-born Romanian politician and businesswoman. Between October 2020 and November 2024, she was Mayor of Bucharest's Sector 1. Armand first ran for Mayor of Sector 1 in the 2016 Romanian local elections on behalf of Save Bucharest Union (USB), a local party she had co-founded in 2015, eventually losing narrowly after having been announced as winner by the exit polls. From July 2019 until November 2020 she was a Member of the European Parliament. Early life and education Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand was born in Pointe-à-Pitre, France, where her father was undergoing alternative military service as a mathematics teacher. Her family was from Vichy, where she also attended primary and secondary school. She studied at the École Centrale Paris and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Sergiu Moroianu, a Romanian mathematician. She married Moroianu in 1997 and moved to Bucharest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecologist Party Of Romania
The Romanian Ecologist Party (, PER) is an ecologist and currently mostly conservative and green conservative political party in Romania, member of the AER Alliance for Romania (''Alianța AER pentru România)''. Without parliamentary representation, it is one of the microparties still active in the country with some representatives elected in the local administration (i.e. a few mayors and county councillors and 210 local councillors), especially in Râmnicu Vâlcea and Vâlcea County, where it is ranked third behind the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Romania's two largest parties. Previously, it collaborated with the Green Party (PV) in the 2008 legislative elections. History The party was founded by , an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to the National Salvation Front (FSN). Adrian Manolache launched the program and the platform of the PER on 5 January 1990 in the newspaper Libertatea, being one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Romania Party
The Greater Romania Party (, PRM) is a Romanian far-right political party. Founded in May 1991 by Eugen Barbu and Corneliu Vadim Tudor, it was led by the latter from that point until his death in September 2015. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party. It briefly participated in government from 1993 to 1995 (in Nicolae Văcăroiu's cabinet). In 2000, Tudor received the second largest number of votes in Romania's presidential elections, partially as a result of protest votes lodged by Romanians frustrated with the fractionalisation and mixed performance of the 1996–2000 Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) government. Tudor's second-place position ensured he would compete in the second round run-off against former president and Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR) candidate Ion Iliescu, who won by a large margin. Parallels are often drawn with the situation in France two years later, when far-right National Rally (RN) party leader Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudiu Târziu
Claudiu Richard Târziu (born 20 February 1973) is a Romanian right-wing politician and journalist. Together with George Simion, he was the co-president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a political party in Romania that gained popularity after its unexpected high score in the 2020 Romanian legislative election, until 27 March 2022, when Simion was elected as the party's sole president. Târziu remained a member of the party, being the president of its National Leadership Council (CNC), until his departure from AUR on 9 April 2025. Biography Claudiu Târziu was born on 20 February 1973 in Bacău, Romania. He graduated from the Anghel Saligny Lyceum of Bacău in 1991 and studied from 1994 to 1999 at the Faculty of Law of the Mihai Eminescu University of Iași. From 2002 to 2007, Târziu studied at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration of Bucharest. According to his curriculum vitae, he is since April 2012 the marketing director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance For The Union Of Romanians
The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (, AUR) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist political party in Romania and Moldova. It was founded in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Romanian local elections, 2020 Romanian local and 2020 Romanian legislative election, legislative elections. The party president is George Simion. The party ran in the local elections, not obtaining many votes and only winning in three towns. However, in the legislative elections, the AUR won 9% of the votes in all of Romania and its Romanian diaspora, diaspora, thus becoming the fourth-largest party in the country at the central level, which surprised observers. As of 2025, the party is the second largest party in the Romanian Parliament. AUR aims for the unification of all Romanians from Romania and Romanian-populated neighbouring zones, including the unification of Moldova and Romania and for the support of the Romanian diaspora in other countries. It has been described as supporting anti-vaccination ide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
