“Nicușor Dan does not answer the phone, I have no one to talk to!”

We return in time: the class of the Central University Library, 2013. Only 12 years have passed. Only! Sorin Oprescu promised a multipurpose room with 12,000 seats, worth 65 million euros.

Gogoși Electoral brand Gabriela Firea and Nicușor Dan

The doctor promised, but so. Six years have passed, and Gabriela Firea came to the municipality. The former journalist, Florentin Pandele's wife, was “thrown” with promises: A top -of -the -art multipurpose room, investment estimated at 138 million euros. Tell!

Nicușor Dan followed, who entered the fight for Bucharest with a start of a force campaign: “We will build with the PNL and USR Plus team a new multipurpose room in Bucharest, to European standards, for large cultural and sports events.”

He won the City Hall, but the promises remained at the campaign stage. The Multipurpose Hall? Still on paper …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-qbcf1oknw

The state gave the land of the town hall, but keeps it “confiscated” for 10 years

Constantin-Bogdan Matei, the president of the National Sport Agency, was the guest of the show “Ovidiu's friends”. He did not house the current general mayor of the capital, Nicușor Dan, who accuses that he failed to build a multipurpose room in his mandate.

He revealed that the chances of Bucharest have a top room are small and that there is the possibility that the Marcel Ciolacu government will withdraw the land granted to the municipality.

– Mr. President, tell me what do we do with the Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest? One of the few capital with claims in Europe that has no room. Everything moved to Cluj, where sports competitions are organized.
– It will organize more. The National Agency for Sport, eight or ten years ago, provided the land of the Capital City Hall to build a multipurpose room in Bucharest.

– Good, when you were a minister in 2019, the subject was discussed.
– Nothing happened, and now, when I returned as president of the National Sport Agency, we have restored an address to the general mayoralty of the Capital to tell me the stage in which we are with the project of the “Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest”. And the answer was a simple one and, from my point of view, non -serious, namely that this objective is in the list of priorities of the City Hall, without telling us …

Gabriela Firea announces that Bucharest will have the Multipurpose Hall with 20,000 seats

Constantin-Bogdan Matei: “Nicușor Dan does not answer the phone, I have no one to talk to!”

– For 10 years!
– For 10 years it is the same answer, I received the same answer when we took over the National Sport Agency. I repeat, it is an non -serious answer for what Bucharest sport means, if you want.

– Is the answer signed by Mayor Nicușor Dan?
-It is signed, there writes the general mayor of the capital, probably delegated his signature, I have no idea, I do not know the signature.

– Good, but didn't talk to you?
– Well, don't answer the phone. Don't answer, I have no one to talk to!

Nicușor Dan, current general mayor of Bucharest

– Didn't you try by secretary?
– Well for nothing, that his reign probably doesn't have a short line. Does not understand the phenomenon! And then you have no one to talk to. I went through such an experience when I was the chairman of the Youth and Sport Commission.

– That's right.
– And I insisted a lot of being able to contact his reign. At that time, Constantina Diță and now, in fact, organizes an important competition in Bucharest.

“I have nothing with the flowers, nor with the little ones. However, we speak of a sports competition”

– The marathon, something, right?
– The marathon, yes. An extremely important competition and overlapped with a flower fair. And Mrs. Diță certainly appealed to me, knowing us for a long time, and said she couldn't. A major competition. The best athletes in this world come. We are still selling flowers and barbecue in the back. I told him I needed a few stands where we could receive. He told me that we had to find a solution and get in touch with Mr. Nicușor. Every year, this important marathon for Romania, not only for Bucharest, overlaps with an approval from the City Hall for this flower fair and small, in the back. I repeat, I have nothing with the flowers or the little ones. However, we are talking about a sports competition.

“That's the way …
– I say, Mrs. Diță, I will try to do everything in my power, to be able to contact this gentleman. I did not succeed at the time. Ten, twenty phones … And then, the only possibility you have at this time is to make an official address, so says Law 544, public information, in 30 days to answer me. He answered me faster, that's right. I'm not saying that in 30 days, but the answer was the same. Or, at this moment, after the answer we received, we have two possibilities.

“What are they?”
– Either we leave him in his pace, but I do not think we will have a multipurpose room in Bucharest built by the General City Hall of the Capital. I repeat, I did not assume, they assumed them. Or we make a government decision again and make our land back and find another variant.

“Let us make our own project through the National Investment Company”

– Another variant that would be? Who to build with?
– Another variant, it would be very easy to do on what the national sports complex “Lia Manoliu” means, because the land is inside this sports complex, and Let us make our own project through the National Investment Company, that they are also in the National Investment Company, I think they want it.

Constantin-Bogdan Matei. Photo: Cristi Preda (gsp.ro)

– Good, agree, but it was lost 10 years.
– And I tell you honestly that we will lose.

– And there is no perspective.
– There is no perspective.

– No one can say, dom'le, the construction begins in the fall.
– No, absolutely no. We cannot engage in such a work, because at this moment the land is handed over to the General City Hall. To take it back, you have to make a government decision. That's what the law says.

– We turn around the tail, so to speak.
– In a way, yes.

“Let's talk to another mayor of Bucharest, which may be much more applied”

– So you cannot give any deadline for a competitive room, so to speak, with 10,000, with 20,000 seats.
– No, at this moment. At this moment the problem of this room is not in the yard of the National Sport Agency, it is at the Capital General City Hall and maybe, of course, after this campaign is over …

– The mayor does not answer you.
– Maybe after this election campaign is over and the waters are clear and no more piercing so many to run for president, may have a short time to talk about what the construction of this room means.

– Or maybe president and another mayor comes.
– maybe the president is going out and then we have the possibility Let's talk to another mayor of Bucharest, which may be much more applied for what the development of the sports infrastructure in Bucharest and not only in Bucharest, for Romania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxw9t7quudn0

The current Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest is 50 years old!

On August 10, 1974, the “Palace of Sports and Culture in Bucharest” was inaugurated. What did the press of the time write?

“The normal duration of such a construction is 30 months, but it has been reduced to 8 months! The work in day and night shifts, technical-organizational solutions in design and execution, the mobilizing and organizing role of the Municipal Party Committee, which materialized by thousands of hours of patriotic work provided by the youth.”noted the journalists from “Sport”.

The current Multipurpose Hall in Bucharest

In the peak days of lifting the room, there were over 2,500 workers on the construction site, the press of the time. The current room was renovated twice, in 2008 and 2011.