Nicusor Dan to run as an independent in Bucharest elections, claims informal support of 4 opposition parties

The Mayor of the Capital, Nicuşor Dan, said on Wednesday that he will run independently in the local elections on June 9, for a second term as head of the PMB and added that he has, informally for the time being, the support of several right-wing parties such as USR, PMP, The Force of Right and REFER.

“I am a man of dialogue. You have not seen, in these years, scandals that I have caused, although I would have liked to a few times, but I am a man of dialogue, I am an independent who had to work with some parties and I worked well. I never anticipated how the people of Bucharest would vote and what other people would do. My task is to explain as best as possible what I have done in these three years and to try to convince them that the project I have for Bucharest is the most suitable”, said Nicusor Dan, in a press conference held on Wednesday.

“We are in a fight in which the PSD electorate matters a lot, as it has always mattered. I was voted in 2020 by a right-wing public, from all right-wing parties. It is up to this public to evaluate me and vote me again or not. As the polls say, we have a PSD party that is at 30-35%, we have a mayor in office that is at 30-35%, I think 36% in the last poll, That will be the battle. I will run independently. At the moment, informally, I have the support of several right-wing parties – USR, PMP, Forţa Dreptei, REPER. I hope that this decision will be formalized. In these elections, I will run as an independent candidate”, added the incumbent mayor of the Capital City.

As for the merged elections, the local elections with the EP ones, Nicușor Dan says that it is “a politician’s calculation to advance the local elections in order to change the result of the European Parliament elections”.

He also slammed “the real estate sharks” for trying to find a candidate for Bucharest whom they can manipulate, saying that it was not PSD that made opposition to his term, but his administration’s fight was with the “real estate sharks”.

“Now, the real estate sharks are looking for an executor who can do it the way it was done – 10-story blocks on two-lane streets, blocks in parks, blocks of blocks where you can’t find a road, a school, a kindergarten. My challenge to real estate sharks is this. Candidates, stop hiding behind bitter people, go in front of the people of Bucharest, and the people of Bucharest decide whether we go in the direction we propose or we go in the direction you propose. There are 4 very important years ahead for Bucharest, which will decide whether we go down the path of legality, of big, necessary, long-ignored projects, of a thought-out, planned development, or we return to the same kind of combinations that are covered by bunnies, pots , dinosaur eggs and other things”, said Nicușor Dan in the press conference.

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