USR MP Catalin Drula declared on Tuesday that the elections for the Bucharest City Hall do not represent „a decision of opportunity” and that organizing the election is not „optional”, but mandatory.

He expressed his hope that USR and PNL will have a common candidate, as USR leader Dominic Fritz and PNL president Ilie Bolojan wish.

„The main struggle at the moment is to remove this absolutely toxic idea that elections are held whether or not they suit a party. We have reached a major crisis in the country, precisely from discussions like this: „˜We merge them, we don’t merge them…”, „We’ve been in power for ten years”, „Maybe we’ll hold the elections, maybe we won’t hold them anymore…” (…) It is not optional for the government to organize these elections. It is mandatory. The last time Ciolacu did this [for Sector 5], USR sued him and won”, he told Antena 3.

Drula added that Bucharesters will determine by vote who will be the next mayor of the capital. He mentioned that the decision regarding organizing the elections belongs „formally” to Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.

He also told PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu that elections must be held, according to the law, after the position of mayor general became vacant.

„He comes out every two days and says that if elections are held in Bucharest, according to the law that says we must have elections, because the position of mayor is vacant, then PSD will feel marginalized and the coalition will be broken. He makes this statement every two days. Elections are not held because it suits Grindeanu, Drula… They are held because they have to”, said the USR deputy.
AGERPRES