{"id":4607,"date":"2025-04-15T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:07:32","slug":"romanias-opposition-party-usr-faces-deep-internal-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s opposition party USR faces deep internal divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s main democratic opposition party, Save Romania Union (USR), issued on April 14 an official note stating that the National Bureau decided, unanimously by those present, to empower the party&#8217;s Secretary-General Dominic Fritz to manage all contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The note followed the Bureau&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/elena-lasconi-usr-informal-vote-bucharest-mayor-elections-2025\" target=\"_blank\">decision last week<\/a> to no longer support the presidential candidacy of USR leader Elena Lasconi in the presidential campaign and instead use all resources to back independent candidate Nicusor Dan, the current mayor of Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>The decision aims to &#8220;operationalize the internal functioning of the party and allow current activities to be carried out,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/alegeri-prezidentiale-2025\/dominic-fritz-preia-informal-conducerea-usr-si-atributiile-elenei-lasconi-decizia-biroului-national-divizeaza-si-mai-mult-partidul-3198037?mc_cid=2aa8fd65ed&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Digi24<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Secretary-General will have the mandate to sign, administer and take all necessary measures to execute contracts concluded with third parties, for the good administration and streamlining of the party&#8217;s activity,&#8221; the document sent by the USR also states.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Elena Lasconi, in a Facebook post, announced she is still the president of USR and a presidential candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the National Bureau&#8217;s meeting on April 14, Lasconi said, &#8220;It was a new attempt to sabotage me, to stop my [presidential] campaign. It is, therefore, an act of sabotage of my candidacy, of my campaign, but the USR president has not changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s main democratic opposition party, Save Romania Union (USR), issued on April 14 an official note stating that the National Bureau decided, unanimously by those present, to empower the party&#8217;s Secretary-General Dominic Fritz to manage all contracts.\u00a0 The note followed the Bureau&#8217;s decision last week to no longer support the presidential candidacy of USR leader [&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-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","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=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}