Social Democrat Gabriela Vranceanu Firea wins Bucharest mayorship
The general mayorship of Bucharest has been won by former journalist and TV anchor Gabriela Vranceanu Firea, who ran for the Social Democrat Party (PSD) alliance with the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR), following the votes on June 5. 2016-06-15 21:52:45 - From the Print Edition
She received a larger amount of votes against Nicusor Dan from Save Bucharest Union (USB), according to three independent exit polls released immediately after the vote in local elections for mayors, local councils and county councils throughout Romania. According to exit polls, CURS-Avangarde′s research commissioned by the public television TVR and private Romania TV shows 42.48 per cent for Firea, followed by Nicusor Dan of Save Bucharest Union with 29.82 per cent and Catalin Predoiu of the National Liberal Party with 12.03 per cent. Sociopol, commissioned by the Antena 3 private TV station, credits Firea with 41 per cent and Dan with 2 per cent. IRES, for Digi24 TV, said Firea has 42.1 per cent and Dan 29.8 per cent.
At parties, the alliance of social democrats and UNPR obtained 43.45 per cent of votes for the Bucharest mayorship for all sectors, followed by Save Bucharest Union led by Nicusor Dan with 29.93 per cent, after the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) centralized the results of 889 vote sections out of a total of 1.252. The ranking comprises the National Liberal Party (PNL) that obtained 11.25 per cent votes, followed by People′s Movement Party-PMP with 6.38 per cent and Romania′s Alliance of Democrats and Liberals- ALDE with 2.95 per cent.
The 3.186 local polling stations established countrywide designated the partial results communicated by BEC on June 7: The Social Democrat party obtained 37.62 per cent of votes, followed by The National Liberal Party with 32.89 per cent, ALDE with 5.74 per cent, the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR), 4.35 per cent; the People′s Movement Party (PMP), 3.33 per cent; the National Union for Romania′s Progress, 2.49 per cent, the PSD+UNPR alliance, 1.30 per cent, and the Social Romanian Party (PSRO), 1.23 per cent. All the other political parties garnered less than one per cent of the votes. Hence, the social democrats obtained 1.683 mayorship mandates, followed by PNL with 1.065 mandates, UDMR with 195 mandates, ALDE with 64 mayorships while independent candidates won 52 mayorships.
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