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Bucharest Life 2012: It’s all about politics

by Craig Turp January 1, 2012 Bucharest

 One thing will dominate Bucharest Life this coming year, and it’s not Elena Udrea in latex. No, having taken a year’s holiday, Romanian politics is back in a big way, with two sets of elections scheduled for 2012, the first since the controversial presidential election of 2008. As things stand today, the loose and unholy [...]

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Bucharest Life 2009

by Craig Turp January 4, 2010 Bucharest

 A week or so late, here is Bucharest Life’s Review of the Year that was 2009. January A new government, led by Traian Basescu and Little Emil Boc, installed following parliamentary elections at the end of 2008, introduces, amongst other moves of sheer political genius, a compulsory profit tax for small companies (even those that [...]

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Romania’s Presidential Election: The Aftermath

by Craig Turp December 7, 2009 Romania

 UPDATE: The PSD have indeed claimed fraud. Firstly, in classic Blackadder style, while we do not like to blow our own trumpet, we do like to let people know we have a trumpet. So, just to remind you all, on Friday, we wrote the following: Turnout over 53 per cent: Basescu squeaks it. Anything less, [...]

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Romania’s Presidential Election 2009 (Round 2)

by Craig Turp December 4, 2009 Bucharest

 We try and keep well away from politics here at Bucharest Life. (That’s a lie! – Ed) Well, almost. But given the fact that we live in Bucharest, capital of Romania, and that come Sunday Romanians will be voting in the second and (probably) final round of the country’s presidential election, we could not help [...]

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Notes on Romania’s Presidential Election (Round 1)

by Craig Turp November 23, 2009 Bucharest

 As expected, the current Romanian president, Traian Basescu, will face the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Mircea Geoana, in a second round run off on December 6th. Both men polled around 30 per cent in yesterday’s first round of voting, with Liberal Crin Antonescu third, with around 22 per cent. The final, actual results [...]

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Don’t vote if you don’t want to

by Craig Turp November 19, 2009 Bucharest

 Romanians go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election. That much you probably know. You probably also know that just three of the candidates have any chance of making the second round a fortnight later. They are: current president Traian Basescu; PSD leader Mircea Geoana; and [...]

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The Week in Bucharest: September 18

by Craig Turp September 18, 2009 Bucharest

A weekly digest of news, business and sport from Bucharest and around Romania

Basescu defends record before parliament

Traian Basescu, Romania’s president, defended his record in office on Wednesday in front of a generally supine parliament. Representatives of the main opposition parties left well before the close of Basescu’s speech.

Basescu said his main achievement had been to oversee ‘unprecedented economic growth,’ and was quick to praise the current government of Emil Boc, a member of Basescu’s Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

Basescu heavily criticised the government of Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, with which he uncomfortably cohabited for the first four years of his term.

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