Nicușor Dan and Ilie Bolojan – what do you say close about them and what makes them different

Will I be the interim president of PNL Ilie Bolojan designated by Nicușor Dan as a prime minister? Can I have the two confidence in each other? Does their style of driving fit?

“Nicușor Dan does not trust people”, he is one of the most surprising characterizations of the current president, whom I heard during the documentation of this article. A close relative of Dan spoke in a confidential dialogue. The person appreciates the politician. The reference to trust is not critical, but, she says, a finding.

Dan Trifu: “Nicușor was always passionate and extraordinarily efficient”

One of the sources of Nicușor's distrust is the multitude of “spikes” that he took as long as he was a civic activist. “There were people or organizations who surrendered in front of the interests of the real estate mafia and that was angry with Nicușor, but not to give up,” explained a man from the world of NGOs.

“Yes, I understand what the person quoted by you says and so it is about civism. Nicușor was always passionate and extraordinarily effective and not many have kept with him. Not many NGOs did what we did. Not many have endured to go to court or have particular detectives behind them.

The organization led by Trifu worked together with Dan's “Save Bucharest” on many urban causes.

Trifu met Dan 20 years ago. It characterizes the current president as “extraordinary in learning capacity”.

“I remember how he presented, when I met him: I am Nicușor Dan from Salvați Bucharest and I want to please explain something … I think that in less than 6 months he knew enormously in the urban and legal area, ”says Trifu about Nicușor Dan.

Nicușor left people who came especially for him

In the field of teams, Nicușor Dan left the impressions mixed in the two mandates, the second very short, at the City Hall. Some of those who came from the private or civic area and attracted exactly by his reputation as a transformer left. They didn't get along with him.

“I did not come to the town hall to impact zero. I did not come to do what I proposed,” he motivated his premature departure, in a confidential discussion with Hotnews, one of Dan's collaborators. He's not the only one who left.

The field of the specialist was not among the mayor's priorities. This is because, apart from district heating and urbanism, his old passion, Dan na open major working fronts in Bucharest. And when he left the town hall there was no prominent team to succeed.

Ilie Bolojan is quite different. His succession plan was respected in the letter. He gave up candidate as mayor of Oradea. Following Florin Birta, a politician 15 years younger, formed in Bolojan's team. The public would hardly call a similar man from the team from Nicușor Dan's Capital City Hall.

Ilie Bolojan and “Rareș Bogdan of Business”

“Bolojan deleagă”, finds one of his close friends. “On the other hand, says the same man, Bolojan was always fearful, he did not put in matters that he could not control or determine.” While Nicușor Dan was endeavored and got into many struggles, regardless of chances, according to those who know him.

When he came to Bucharest, as interim president, Bolojan made some elections that surprised his close friends.

“All his life, Bolojan has been away from PR characters, with some qualities, but without consistency, such as Rareș Bogdan. And he came to hire as a counselor” Rareș Bogdan of business “, as” aligned “Dragoș Anastasiu in the world of business,” said a man who knows Bolojan.

Scene with Nicușor Dan in his own office

Several people confirmed, from work with him, what Nicușor Dan himself said: The current president solves things one after the other. He has no multifaceted approach.

He has no team. As the characterization related to his lack of confidence sounded, Nicușor Dan is the leader who lets others do. Why? For fear that they will not do at the level he claims. This explains the fact that they delegate difficult, I confess people from the PMB.

A person from the area of ​​Culture, who had a matter to solve at the town hall, remembers in dialogue with the journalists as “I entered the room where Nicușor was and had a unique image: the mayor was bent on a huge map, alone, and he had dozens, if not hundreds, of files, which he had asked.”

On the other hand, all the sources with which Hotnews discussed describe Nicușor Dan as a deeply honest and lacking man. This offers a state of comfort to any partner in the relationship with him. In this chapter, Ilie Bolojan can look at the president as a “boss” to whom he does not suspect hidden personal agendas.

But the integrity of the person Nicușor Dan does not make the possible relationship president Dan – prime minister Bolojan, because the current president has worked as a “lone wolf”, so far.

Dan always surrounded a circle of loyals from the world of civism, of volunteers dedicated to sacrifice. In public functions, Bolojan has cultivated systems and was imprisoned by love, but by respect, believe those who know him.

Matthew Păun: “I or the team would have proposed one direction and he chose another ”

Recently, Matei Păun appeared public, one of the mysterious figures that accompanied Nicușor Dan from the training years of activism until today.

Even if reverence, the description that Păun made to Dan is that of a strong player, rather than “team player”.

“There have been numerous moments over the years when I or the team would have proposed one direction and he chose another, it seems normal to me,” recently confessed to Dan, in an interview with Digi 24.

Păun was director of Nicușor Dan's election campaign in 2016. He is now, according to his statements, a close relative of the President of Romania.

“He is a very independent person in thought,” Despun described Dan, in a dialogue with Hotnews. Păun presented himself as “a person who believed in Nicușor and who still believes in Nicușor”, but portrayed a president not comfortable for those around him.

“Nicușor has his style, very effective: he speaks a little, at first, and then listens to the opinions of others,” explained a USR politician, asked how he collaborated with Dan at the City Hall.

Bolojan morning and disciplinated Dan

The president is not the head of the prime minister, according to the Romanian Constitution. He designates him, but he does not name him. The prime minister passes the government program and the composition of the cabinet through the Parliament. Moreover, “the President of Romania cannot revoke the Prime Minister”, writes in Article 107 of the Constitution.

In the case of the Nicușor Dan – Ilie Bolojan, the separation of powers begins with the biorhythm. As a program, they are like the sun and the moon.

Ilie Bolojan wakes up very early and “sometimes reaches the office at 6-7”, say his close friends. Private life has always been left in line, which seemed a heroism in the world of “decrees”, but today it is rightly considered an abuse of you. And sometimes an abuse of others.

Nicușor Dan did not miss his family's life, no matter how hard he was as mayor. “I will negotiate with the SPP so I can take my daughter to school,” he said, after being chosen. This would mean that the Cotroceni program starts after 9:30, an unprecedented thing.

“In 20 years of work together in processes, we barely drank a few beers together, with Nicușor. He was always immersed in his actions.

The president does not even seek a friend, but a prime minister.