{"id":451,"date":"2024-06-10T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:05:59","slug":"romanias-2024-elections-president-of-opposition-party-usr-resigns-after-disappointing-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s 2024 elections: President of opposition party USR resigns after disappointing results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C\u0103t\u0103lin Drul\u0103<\/strong>, the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), has resigned after the party recorded disappointing results in the June 9 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result of the elections is below the expectations we had. [\u2026] I take responsibility for the result,\u201d Drul\u0103 said in his resignation speech.<\/p>\n<p>Drul\u0103 won the elections for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/usr-catalin-drula-new-president-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president of Romania\u2019s main opposition party in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>USR was part of the alliance that supported Bucharest mayor Nicu\u0219or Dan in his bid for a second mandate. Preliminary results show that the party hasn\u2019t managed to keep the mayor mandates it had in Bucharest\u2019s District 1 and District 2. In Bra\u0219ov, USR mayor Allen Coliban gathered fewer votes than his PNL rival George Scripcaru. In the EU Parliament elections, the United Right Alliance, which included USR, scored a little above 16%, according to preliminary data.<\/p>\n<p>Drul\u0103 said he would call elections for a new party president shortly and pointed to Dominic Fritz, the Timi\u0219oara mayor who has won a second term, as a potential leader. \u201cIt is essential that USR goes further because Romania\u2019s modernization hopes were pinned on this movement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/local-elections-2024-partial-results-romania-major-cities-mayors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local elections 2024: Partial results show most of Romania\u2019s major cities reelect mayors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: George Calin\/ Inquam Photos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u0103t\u0103lin Drul\u0103, the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), has resigned after the party recorded disappointing results in the June 9 elections. \u201cThe result of the elections is below the expectations we had. [\u2026] I take responsibility for the result,\u201d Drul\u0103 said in his resignation speech. Drul\u0103 won the elections for the president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}