Mircea Geoana

Esoteric energy & Purple flames: Romanian politics goes officially Michael Jackson

by Craig Turp January 18, 2010 Romania

 How many times have we used the phrase ‘You really couldn’t make it up’ on these pages? Too many to count. But we are about to do so again anyway… You really couldn’t make it up: wife of defeated presidential candidate Mircea Geoana appeared on television on Saturday night to reveal that during the election [...]

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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 4

by Craig Turp September 4, 2009 Bucharest

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

Former President attacks Basescu; Presidential election set for November 22

Former Romanian President Emil Constantinescu this week labelled called current president Traian Basescu a “lying, long-term Securitate informer” in an open letter (published on Constantinescu’s own website) in which he endorsed the candidacy of the Liberal Party’s Crin Antonescu. Constantinescu claimed that Basescu was man of “limited eductaion” who had repeatedly shown his incompetence in a long political career in which he had achieved little except “destroiying the [Romanian commercial] fleet and delaying the construction of motorways.”

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