The mayor of Caracal municipality, Ion Doldurea, the father of the owner of the liquefied gas station in Crevedia, where a devastating explosion took place last year that killed several people, announced on Friday that he would run in the elections. a new mandate in the mayor’s office of Caracal from the PSD.

Present at the press conference where he made this statement, PSD MP Adrian Cesnoiu said that the mayor did not lose his party membership when he decided to withdraw from political positions and had the “full support” of the social democrats from the municipality and the county.

Ion Doldurea claimed that he decided to run because several EU-funded projects for Caracalla City Hall worth more than €100 million will start this year, and other projects totaling €70 million are due to be submitted.

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“If a year or two ago I said: ‘This is my last and only term as mayor,’ now I can confidently say that I will run for office. It was not easy for me to make a decision, neither when I applied for the first time nor now, but I am very determined to apply because the projects we have in Caracal at the moment are 107 million euros of works with European money or nationals, the contracts are signed , and many of them have already been announced for tenders and will start right now. On March 1, April, May, we will start work and propose projects for ADR Oltenia worth at least 70 million euros. I mean, if we succeed in this, you understand that we will be able to say that we have fulfilled our duty to the citizens and the program that you have (there is no election program for 2020) and that we wrote together with team at We are watching 2020 very closely, there are many things that have been far, far exceeded, which is why I am running,” said Ion Doldurea, as quoted by Agerpres.

Olt PSD MP Adrian Cesnoiu, first vice-president of PSD Caracal, said that the mayor’s answer regarding the candidacy for a new mandate is the result of discussions in the local party organization.

“The mayor is a member of the PSD and has never lost his membership in the PSD. He has made a unilateral decision to remove himself from all the positions he holds in PSD Caracal and PSD Olt, and the unilateral decision to return is entirely his own, and when the time is right, he will announce it with the same respect and principle as he answered the question now. And the fact that he honestly answered that he will run is the result of the discussions we had within the organization, and he has the full support of our colleagues from PSD Caracal, from PSD Olt and, I think, also from the national PSD,” said Adrian . Honest.

Last year, at the end of August, after the explosion in Crevedia, the mayor of Caracalla, Ion Doldurea, announced in a Facebook post that he had decided to suspend himself as a member of the PSD and, by implication, from any other political position.

“Given the situation, although I do not have and never had any involvement in the commercial company where the tragic event took place, but because it is a member of my family, so that there is no other interpretation, I have taken the decision to suspend me from the membership of the PSD and, implicitly, from any other political position,” the mayor wrote on his Facebook page in August 2023.