The Congress of the Democratic People’s Republic of Ukraine approves the results of the voting for the position of party president on Saturday at an online meeting as the final stage of the internal elections held in early July. In the first round of internal elections for the post of USR president, Katalin Drula won with 71.3% of the vote.

The president of the USR was elected by a vote of all members, and internal elections began on July 6 and ended on July 10, when the results of the vote were announced, reports news.ro.

There were six candidates, the following results were recorded:

– Cătălin Drula – 12,967 votes (71.3%)

– Cătălin Teniţă – 2706 votes (14.8%)

– Octavian Berchanu – 2,041 votes (11.2%)

– Gheorghe Ungurianu – 163 votes (0.9%)

– Myroslav Tashka Stavre – 138 votes (0.76%)

– Alexander Kiss – 97 votes (0.53%).

Voter turnout was 77.2%.

“Today we are one team, the UDR team. Team Kutari and Team Kutarika are done, we are all USR from now on. Anyone who understands that hard work and teamwork gets results is a good colleague of ours and we will build from here with all our colleagues, regardless of what options they had. But what we can no longer do is that in the UDR we no longer have time for stardom and immature politics. Whoever stays there puts himself outside our party,” Drula said immediately after his election.

The USR President, Cătălin Drula, will hold a press conference after the USR Congress, at 11.30, together with Timisoara Mayor Dominik Fritz.