A German mayor for Bucharest?

Local elections will be held at the beginning of June in Romania. Doru Buscu thinks it would be a good idea to have a German female candidate for mayor in Bucharest, pointing out that there is already a German mayor in Spain and that the most popular mayor in France is an Englishman. A German candidate for Bucharest "would represent a new beginning in Romanian politics and would be wonderful PR and a great opportunity for this paralysed city. ... However this option has been blocked here in Romania: the laws governing local elections do not allow European citizens from other countries to be candidates in Romanian elections. This could have been changed by governmental decree ... but it was not. Somewhere along the way the idea was scrapped, or maybe it just disappeared. Nonetheless, it could resurface in the future. Christian Ude, the 61-year-old current mayor of Munich, would be a good choice for 2012, or Petra Roth, 64 years old and currently mayor of Frankfurt."

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