After fifteen years of militant combat and on his third attempt, Nicusor Dan won the Bucharest town hall on Sunday.
A page is turned, that of twelve years of management of the PSD, this formation heir to the Communist Party.
And with it an entire chapter in the history of the Romanian capital, opened with the fall of the Berlin Wall by real estate speculators and kings of corruption.
Nicusor Dan, now aged 50, no longer has the hairstyle or the sloppy allure of his beginnings, when he fought for the defense of civil rights, the environment and the safeguard of the architectural heritage of his city, Once nicknamed the “little Paris of the Balkans”, for its Art Nouveau villas and modernist buildings surrounded by large parks.
At the head of the Union Save Bucharest (USB), an association he founded in 2006 with his wife, Mirabela, he stepped up punch operations and lawsuits against promoters and politicians who wanted to break through highways.
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