Ana Ciceala's party asks the Government to assume responsibility for the election of mayors in two rounds
Ana Ciceală, upon announcing her candidacy for the Capital City Hall. PHOTO: Inquam Photos / Codrin Unici
One day after the elections in Bucharest, SENS, the party that supported Ana Ciceală in the race, asks Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan and the Government to assume responsibility for returning to the election of mayors in two rounds.
SENS says the measure could lead to an end to the “tyranny of the useful vote” and the “dictation of the polls”.
Ana Ciceăla's party claims that “just as the Government wants to solve the budget deficit by assuming responsibility for the austerity measures, we ask the Prime Minister to solve the existing democratic deficit by assuming responsibility for the reintroduction of the second round in the election of mayors”.
In the summer of this year, SENS says it sent an open letter to the executive in which it requested the same thing: “We will continue to demand the election of mayors in two rounds until the parties that form the government majority show that they understood the message of the people of Bucharest and Romanians.”
The second round for the election of mayors was eliminated in 2012, against the backdrop of the economic crisis Romania was facing at the time.
And the new mayor of the Capital supports the election of mayors in two rounds
Ciprian Ciucu, elected mayor of the Capital with 36.16% of the votes, stated, before the elections, that he supports the return to elections in two rounds for the position of mayor.
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He argued that legitimacy is very important when a person occupies a public office, and a mayor, the more votes he has, the more legitimacy he enjoys.
“Legitimacy is very important and maybe we will come back and discuss, after these elections, next year, in a serious way, the return to two rounds for the election of mayors, because it can only be good for democracy”, said Ciprian Ciucu at the time.
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