Ciprian Ciucu, nominated PNL candidate for the Capital City Hall. Daniel Băluță says that he will be the PSD candidate: “It's just a formality”
The PNL Bucharest branch designated, on Sunday evening, Ciprian Ciucu as the party's candidate for Bucharest City Hall, according to HotNews sources. The decision was taken by secret ballot. For his part, Daniel Băluță said, on Digi24, that his designation as PSD candidate “is a formality”.
The decision taken today by the Bucharest liberals will be submitted to the National Permanent Bureau of the PNL, which will meet in a meeting and validate the candidacy of Ciprian Ciucu, this being the last procedural step provided by the party statute.
This meeting will most likely take place in the coming days, so that Ciprian Ciucu can officially become the PNL candidate for Bucharest City Hall.
Stelian Bujduveanu, the only opponent
The only opponent that Ciprian Ciucu had in Sunday's PNL Bucharest meeting was the current acting general mayor of the Capital, Stelian Bujduveanu, according to HotNews sources.
Bujduveanu wanted to get the support of the party to run in the December 7 elections, but he did not get the necessary votes.
The Prime Minister and President of the PNL, Ilie Bolojan, said Thursday evening, on Antena 3 CNN, that Ciprian Ciucu “will very likely be” the party's candidate for Bucharest City Hall.
Daniel Băluță says he is the PSD candidate
Invited to Digi24 on Sunday evening, the mayor of sector 4 Daniel Băluță said that PSD's decision regarding his designation as the party's candidate for the Capital City Hall is a “purely formal” one.
“It will be decided in the next two or three days… We are looking forward to the Permanent Bureau, it will probably be on Tuesday or Wednesday, and we will discuss this topic within the Social Democratic Party as well. (…) Obviously, it is a purely formal decision at this moment and we are waiting to implement it”, declared Băluță.
Băluță and Ciucu, in the first places in the last survey regarding the battle for the Capital City Hall / How much do Cătălin Drălu and the independent Anca Alexandrescu have
An Avangarde poll places Ciucu in 2nd place
A poll conducted by Avangarde published on Sunday indicates a close race in the race for the Capital City Hall, with the first four candidates for the partial local elections on December 7 being within a range of only nine percent.
According to the sociological research, the PSD mayor of sector 4, Daniel Băluță (25%) and the PNL mayor of sector 6, Ciprian Ciucu (23%) are currently in the first places in the preferences of Bucharest residents.
In third place is the USR candidate, Cătălin Drula, with 18%, closely followed by independent Anca Alexandrescu. She, the producer of the show Culisele Statului Paralel from Realitatea PLUS where Călin Georgescu was and is a constant presence, announced on Thursday that “99%” will run.
They are followed by Cristian Popescu Piedone (8%), Vlad Gheorghe from the RIGHT party (4%), Ana Ciceală from SENS (3%) and the independent Virgil Alexandru Zidaru (2%)
What other surveys have shown
A CURS survey from last Sunday also put Daniel Băluță, the current PSD mayor of Sector 4, in first place in voting intentions, with the same percentage of 25%. Cătălin Drula (USR) and Ciprian Ciucu (PNL) were tied for second place, each with 18%.
In an Avangarde poll from August 31, Daniel Băluță and Ciprian Ciucu were tied, with 25% each, followed by Cătălin Drula with 20% and the independent Anca Alexandrescu with 18%, while the other candidates did not exceed the 5% threshold.
In the previous CURS barometer, published on August 24, Băluță was rated with 24%, Drula with 20%, and Cristian Popescu Piedone and Ciprian Ciucu had 11% each.
Also then, PNL presented an INSCOP poll in which the current mayor of Sector 4 still appeared at the top of the ranking, regardless of the scenario tested for the AUR candidacy – either with George Simion or with Anca Alexandrescu.
