According to local media, Brasov Mayor Allen Coliban, who was on a delegation to Barcelona, ​​asked Vice Mayor Sebastian Rusa to move his office from the City Hall headquarters to the Brasov Municipal Cemetery. .

The tension between Allen Coliban and Sebastián Rusu has reached a new level, with misunderstandings between them after winning the 2020 elections.

Rusu says he received an email about his “eviction” from Koliban, but is waiting for an official order from the mayor.

“On November 8, Saint Michael and Gabriel day, when I was celebrating my birthday (I’m also named Mihai, no), I received an email from the mayor of Brasov, who is in Barcelona, ​​informing me. that from November 10, which is my birthday, I have to move to a new office at the Brasov Municipal Cemetery. I am waiting for the mayor to return and hold a discussion on Tuesday (November 14) so ​​that he will give me the mayor’s order. I am acting on the basis of a regulation, not an email, because we are in the City Hall, not a company, and we must respect the Administrative Code,” Rusu said, Monitorul Expres reported.

Rusu says the “evacuation” from City Hall is “a blatant abuse of power and a direct attack based on personal pride, nothing more than a continuation of the mayor’s revenge.”

The management of cemeteries in the municipality remained the only authority given to the deputy mayor Sebastian Rus, president of the municipal organization PNL Brașov, after he was eventually left without authority due to political disagreements with the mayor of Brașov, according to BizBrașov.

One of Brasov’s mayor’s complaints was that Sebastian Rusu spends an average of one hour a day at City Hall, according to data from the electronic time-keeping system.

Asked if the cemetery has an electronic reporting system, the PNL vice-mayor emphasized that public administration is carried out “on the ground”, but also the fact that when he goes to catch bears at night, he has no way to report.

“Both the mayor and I are high-ranking officials, and we perform our functions 24 hours a day, not 8 hours a day,” Rusu said.

At the beginning of November, Allen Koliban proposed to dismiss the deputy mayor, but after a plenary meeting of the Brasov City Council, which lasted for 10 hours, Sebastian Rusu remained as the deputy mayor of Brasov Municipality, as the PNL and PSD Councilors left the hall. Due to the lack of a quorum, the project could not be put to a vote.

And then Koliban noted that the deputy mayor spends very little time in the office, from one to two hours, and receives a monthly salary of 27,600 lei, saying about Rusa that he is “a lazy person who blocks everything.”

Chain scandals

A group of local PNL Brasov councilors went to the headquarters of the Brasov City Hall on Tuesday, accompanied by a bailiff, so that he could “officially establish” the fact that the representatives of the municipality had deactivated their access cards at the facility. headquarters.

“We would like to inform you and the residents of Brasov that Mayor Allen Koliban has blocked the access of local councilors to the City Hall, they can only enter through the main door. Since we will take legal measures, we summoned a bailiff with us to draw a conclusion and show the fact that the access of local councilors is blocked,” said Brasov Deputy Mayor Sebastian Rusu.

He explained that none of the deputies was informed in any way about the deactivation of the cards.

The bailiff tried to open one by one the doors leading to the officials from different departments, the doors leading to the secretary of the Brasov City Hall, the doors leading to the offices of the deputy mayors and the legal department, using the access cards of several local councilors, they explain that this cards of liberal advisers. The only card that worked and opened the door was Liberal Deputy Mayor Sebastian Rusa’s card, which had not been deactivated.

When checking the possibility of access and finding that the door cannot be opened with the deputies’ cards, the bailiff recorded this.

“Considering what was stated on the basis of Art. 364 of the Civil Procedure Code, we found the above, that the access of deputies of local councils of the PNL group is limited. In this sense, photos of access cards and three entrances were taken, as a result of which this protocol was concluded,” the performer dictated to his assistant.

According to newsbv.ro journalists, “local councilors cannot talk to officials unless they call them to their office” and “officials are no longer allowed to go with local councilors to the places if they come with problems reported by the people Brasov”.

Mayor Koliban, accused of dictatorship

Deputy Mayor Sebastian Rusu stated at the end of the bailiff’s report that the decision to deactivate the cards not only limited the ability of council members to perform their duties, but because of this decision “their official dignity and personal dignity were also violated.” violated”.

“We are practically witnessing the emergence of a new form of dictatorship, born of the petty interests of one person. (…) Mayor Koliban’s decision casts a serious shadow over the local state administration and our democracy. We call on the mayor to reconsider this decision and respect democratic principles, transparency and integrity,” said Deputy Mayor Sebastian Rusu.

Other deputies of the local councils complained that “they are kept in the entrances”, they are not allowed to enter the institution and that in this context “it is no longer possible to talk about collaborationism in the literal sense of the word”, and showed that if the situation is not corrected, they will apply to the Brasov court to compel Mayor Allen Coliban to reactivate the institution’s access cards, at all entrances, for local councillors.