Centrist Bucharest mayor on Sunday said he voted for change that would bring Romanian prosperity “not a wild adventure that would spook investors.”
Nicusor Dan cast his ballot in his home town of Fagaras accompanied by his partner, Mirabela Grădinaru.
After exiting the polling station, he told journalists:
“I voted thinking of many people who are silent, honest, hardworking and who did not feel represented for a long time. Two weeks ago, Romanians voted for change. The question is what change. I voted for a change that would bring prosperity not a wild adventure that would spook investors,” he said.
“We voted for a European direction and for a good collaboration with our European partners and not for the isolation of Romania. I voted for a society in which we manage to have dialogue and not one in which we are divided. I voted with hope because there are people in Romania and the diaspora to build the Romania we want,” Nicusor Dan said.
He explained that he chose to vote in Făgăraş “to convey to the people that there should not be two Romanias, one of the big cities and one of the rural area and small towns and that we must distribute prosperity everywhere in Romania.”
Pro-European Dan is facing nationalist frontrunner George Simion in Sunday’s runoff, an election that could change Romania’s strategic alliances.
