Bucharest elected a liberal mayor in Sunday’s local election, partial results showed, giving Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan the upper hand in a fragile pro-European ruling coalition and handing a defeat to a hard-right contender tipped to win.
The influential post has been vacant since May when centrist independent Nicusor Dan won a presidential election re-run one year into his second term as mayor, and polls had shown Bucharest on the verge of becoming the first European Union capital led by a hard-right politician.
Liberal defeats hard-rigght in Bucharest
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