The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) is asking the government to announce when it intends to hold a mayoral by-election in Sector 5 and 49 other town halls where the mayoral post has become vacant, according to information on the website of the Representative Table on Wednesday.

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We remind you that on May 12, 2022, the Bucharest Court of Appeal finally sentenced the former mayor of Sector 4 Cristian Popescu-Piedone, the current mayor of Sector 5, to 4 years in prison for abuse of office in connection with the issuance of permits for the Club “Collectiv “.

The verdict was passed almost 7 years after the tragedy, as a result of which 65 people died and about 150 were maimed. In the first instance, he received 8 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

PSD battle for mayor of sector 5: Daniel Florea and Vlad Piedone want to run

Former mayor Daniel Florea and Vlad Popescu Piedone, the son of Christian Popescu Piedone, imprisoned after being convicted in the Collective Dossier, want to run for mayor of Sector 5, political sources told HotNews.ro in May.

According to political sources cited by HotNews.ro, both MPs announced their intention on Monday at a PSD meeting and asked for the party’s support.

Asking both would worry PSD president Marcel Čolaka, who responded that the party now has other priorities than the by-elections that will be held in six months.

Daniel Florea is in his second mandate as a PSD deputy after serving as mayor of sector 5 between 2016 and 2020. During his tenure as mayor, Flore was accused of overcharging contractors.

The former PSD mayor of Sector 5, Daniel Flore, was questioned by DNA in the fall of 2020 after prosecutors raided several sector town halls. At the time, Florea was audited after an auction for the purchase of a maximum of 35,000 tablets for students and teachers in Sector 5 in Bucharest, with a contract with an estimated cost of more than 59.1 million lei, financed from public funds.

SEAP data showed that the auction was canceled on the grounds that it would no longer be appropriate. The auction was organized after PSD Mayor Daniel Florea announced on September 11 that he had already bought 33,000 tablets for all students and teachers in the Sector, the equipment will be delivered gradually until the end of October. Florea kept secret the company to which he transferred millions of euros of public money for these tablets. In the midst of the election campaign and shortly before the start of the new school year, PSD Mayor Daniel Florea released a series of videos assuring students and teachers that they would have tablets with internet at the start of the school year.

Vlad Popescu Piedone has been a PSD deputy from Suceava since 2020. He ran for Dan Voiculescu’s PPU-SL party, which was supported in the PSD list.

Vlad Piedone has publicly announced his intention to run for the seat left vacant by the imprisonment of his father Cristian Popescu Piedone. “I will continue with the citizens of Sector 5 and my father’s team to make the impossible…possible,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

The Liberals have not yet discussed in the statutory forums candidates for the by-election from Sector 5. In 2020, the Liberal Cristian Becanu was the joint candidate of PNL-USR-PLUS. Cristian Bacanu finished third in sector 5 behind Cristian Piedone and Daniel Flore. The distance to Florea was less than one percent, and almost three percent separated him from Piedone.

Piedone asked from prison to support his son in the mayor’s office

He published this message after Cristian Popescu Piedone asked the residents of Sector 5 to trust his son, Vlado Popescu Piedone, from prison.

“My son Vlad is at your disposal, as I was at your disposal! Whatever problems you have, whatever plans you have for the community, contact Vlad! He’s young, he’s a father, he’s hardworking and with the Piedone team he can do exactly what he needs to do in Sector 5! Together with Vlad, continue to make the impossible… possible,” wrote Christian Popescu Piedone.

The former mayor of Sector 4, Cristian Popescu-Piedone, was finally sentenced on Thursday by the Bucharest Court of Appeal to 4 years in prison for abuse of office in connection with the issuing of permits for the Colectiv club.

The verdict was handed down almost 7 years after the tragedy, as a result of which 65 people died and about 150 were maimed. In the first instance, he received 8 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

The candidate from the UDR sued the authorities in the case

USR has nominated Alexandra Dimitriou, former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, as the mayoral candidate for Sector 5.

Last month, Alexandrou Dimitriou, the USR candidate for the mayoralty of Sector 5, announced that he was suing the government, the interior ministry and the permanent electoral authority, unhappy that the authorities had not started the procedures required by the lge. for the election of a new mayor after the former mayor Cristian Popescu Piedone was sentenced to four years of imprisonment with execution in the “Collective” case.