The Humanist Social Liberal Party (PUSL), the party founded by Dan Voiculescu, announced on Tuesday that it will support Gabriela Firea for mayor-general of Bucharest in next year’s local elections.

“During the meeting of the Collegiate Leadership Forum, it was established that the Social-Liberal Humanist Party will support Senator Gabriela Firea in the 2024 local elections for the post of mayor of the capital,” said a press release published on Tuesday. evening on the PUSL website.

The communiqué was signed by Cristian Popescu Piedone, mayor of sector 5 and executive president of the formation, as well as Graciela Leocadia Gavrilescu, deputy and president of the Fund for Collegiate Leadership of the Humanist Social Liberal Party.

The party’s announcement comes in the context of Gabriela Firea’s name appearing in the horror asylum scandal.

Gabriel Firea is currently the president of the PSD of Bucharest and has announced that he wants to run for mayor of the capital in 2024.

The growth of Gabriela Firea from a journalist of the Intact group to the mayor of the capital

Gabriela Firea, a journalist by profession, worked for the Intact trust, owned by Dan Wojculescu, as a moderator and producer of shows, including the “Gabi Firea Show”. In 2009, she was appointed CEO of Intact Advertising, entrusted to Dan Voiculescu. Earlier, in 2000, she was the spokesperson of the then Prime Minister Mugur Iserescu.

In 2012, when PSD was led by Viktor Ponta, Robert Negojce, Vice President of PSD and Mayor of District 3, announced Gabriela Firea’s entry into politics and her participation in the 2012 parliamentary elections at a press conference.

Firea was elected senator in 2012 and after a four-year mandate is running for mayor of the capital. From June 2016 to October 2020, he held the position of Mayor General of the capital and president of the PSD Bucharest organization.

On February 24, 2013, she was elected president of the district PSD organization in Ilfov, and at the congress on April 20, 2013, she was elected vice-president of the party at the national level, proposed by the Organization of Social Democratic Parties. women

The influence of the Firea-Pandele group has spread beyond Ilfov and has strong ramifications in the politics and social life of Bucharest, which has around it a real society of doctors, artists, sportsmen, many of whom nominate them for public positions.

In 2020, Gabriela Firea ran for the new mandate of Mayor General of the Municipality of Bucharest, but came second to Nikusor Dan.

In her political career, Gabriela Firea managed to maintain and increase her influence in the party, being continuously elected to the leadership of the PSD during the presidencies of Victor Ponta, Liviu Dragnia, Viorica Dencile and now Marcel Čolaka.

In 2019, when the party was headed by Viorika Dencila, Gabriela Firea came into conflict with her, wanting to be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate. With the support of Paul Stenescu, Firea applied pressure to be nominated, but ran into opposition from leaders in the territory.

With strong support from the Intact group founded by Dan Voiculescu, Firea was constantly in the spotlight and benefited from intense media coverage. Firea received a new mandate as a senator and the position of first vice-president of the PSD.

With the entry of the PSD into the government, a special ministry was created for her, the Ministry of Family and Social Protection, and she was officially announced by Marcel Çolaku as the official candidate for the position of mayor of the capital in the 2024 elections.

In the PSD, Gabriela Firea is close to PSD General Secretary Paula Stanescu. In addition, in 2022, the Secretary General of the PSD nominated Gabriela Firea as the PSD candidate for the presidential election. From the Social Democratic Women’s Summer School, Stanescu said that “I would be happy for the party to support a woman in the presidential elections in 2024.”