Romanian Presidential Election 2009

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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Trick or treat?

by Craig Turp November 27, 2009 Romanian Politics

 You know what we’re talking about. The video. This video. The only thing anyone is talking about in Romania right now. The video broadcast last night on every TV station that would appear to show Romanian president Traian Basescu hitting a small boy. Is it real? A (very) clever fake? Not for us to say. [...]

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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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Lipscani is doing just fine without any input from Bucharest City Council

by Craig Turp October 23, 2009 Bucharest

 As we wrote in the foreword of the current edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket, the rehabilitation of Lipscani/Centru Vechi/Historic Bucharest as the city’s heart and soul continues apace. It is the one part of the capital that has the potential to become a worthwhile place to visit, a centre of nightlife and debauchery to [...]

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