Nicușor Dan is the new president of Romania. Congratulations to everyone who voted!
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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A centrist is just another goddamn neo-liberal... I think, though he did run as an independent?! Daring today, aren't we sir?
But yeah, better him than... the "alternative". It's not nice to have someone who cleans Tzar boots with his tounge as president.
@thorhop As a centrist, he did great things while being the mayor of Bucharest. He reorganized the public transit to cover more areas previously uncovered, brought new vehicles to the fleet (both trams, buses and trolleybuses), signed contracts to repair the tram lines that give you a bumpy ride and haven't been repaired since ages (funding is due from the EU, as the local budget was sabotaged by the "social-democrats" in the local council) and contracted a consulting company to create a master plan for a bike path network all around the city. He also focused on repairing the aging central heating pipes so that we won't have problems with heating in the winter anymore, especially by replacing them with new pipes with special sensors to detect leaking in time. Public lighting was also switched to LED on multiple arteries, saving money and electricity at the same time, and he managed to complete the water treatment plant at Glina, a project that should have been finished years ago by the previous "social-democrat" mayors.
Imo he's more than just an alternative, he's simply the way to go, and I'm glad he's now a president.
That's pretty neat. All good things.
Centrist, left, right, that's up to people to choose. Selling the country shouldn't be IMO.
True enough, but as we see with neo liberals in the UK, France, Germany, France, the US and the Nordics, it's easy to sell the country - under the guise of international investment, as a precept by the world bank. You're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Yeah I hate the whole (unreasonable) debt thing too (some blackrock or vanguard literally buys a oart of your economy), but normally under EU rules you are supposed to not go too bad right (some debt is totally normal, it's the function ing debt, but not like 100% of GDP size debts)?