The spokesperson of the PSD, Lucian Romaşcanu, declared on Thursday that within the coalition, the best political option is still that of having a common candidate for the Capital City Hall.
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According to some political sources, the governing coalition parties failed to decide in Thursday's meeting if they will have a common candidate for the Capital City Hall or if they will go with their own candidates and the negotiations will continue in the following days.
Vasile Dîncu, the president of the PSD National Council, told Digi24 that none of the candidates that were talked about until now is on the list, but that new names have appeared.
The option of a common candidate for the Capital City Hall and sectors 1 and 2 is still going, “where we have battle with other parties“, said Dîncu.
“Next, the best political option is to have a common candidate. (…) Ms. Firea fails to bring in the PNL electorate, which turns her towards Nicusor Dan. It's very complicated. I can understand that Ms. Firea is very upset, she is the best ranked among all the possible PSD candidates, but we need those numbers to show us that she can win. The polls show us that when we tried to put a common candidate, we do not manage to put the electoral pools together and we cannot afford a failure. A candidate is being profiled who will be on the administrative project for Bucharest. If we do not succeed in this by Monday, each party will go with its own candidate“, Romascanu said on Romania TV.
PSD and PNL instead decided to have common candidates for the sectors in Bucharest.
Dîncu denied that it was the businessman Dan Șucu, the financier of the Rapid football team, and said that he has no interest in running. He added that it would not be wise for either Gabriela Firea (PSD) or Sebastian Burduja (PNL) to run for the Capital City Hall, because they would not receive votes from the other party's electorate.
