Nicusor Dan running for a 2nd term as Bucharest mayor: “It would be a pity for PSD to return”

Bucharest general mayor Nicusor Dan confirmed that he will run for a new term as mayor of the Capital to win, arguing that “it would be a pity” for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) to return at the helm of the Capital City Hall.

“I’m running to win, because it would be a pity if PSD returned, after these three years, which were only three, one of which I paid debts, after these three years, in which I took things in a correct, normal direction (…). I hope that people will get informed, I hope that in the eternal battle of right-wing versus PSD all those or many of those right-wing voters who gave me their vote in 2020 will do the same,” Nicusor Dan told private broadcaster Prima News on Monday.

He mentioned that he would get more than 30 percent of the votes, according to a recent opinion poll.

On a different note, the Bucharest general mayor also said that he does not endorse of idea of merging of local and the European Parliament elections.

“I think we already have a deficit of democracy in the way the media relates to political actors, to what happens in everyday life and a concurrence makes the message all the more diffuse,” he argued.

Nicusor Dan went on to say that he is not considering rejoining Save Romania Union (USR), he is an independent mayor, he has had a good collaboration in the General Council of Bucharest with USR, (People’s Movement Party (PMP), the National Liberal Party (PNL), and in the public space he cooperates with Forta Dreptei and REPER.