{"id":798,"date":"2024-07-05T13:06:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=798"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T13:06:55","slug":"timisoara-mayor-dominic-fritz-submits-application-for-romanian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Timi\u0219oara mayor Dominic Fritz submits application for Romanian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominic Fritz<\/strong>, re-elected on June 9 as the mayor of Timi\u0219oara, a major city in western Romania, announced that he submitted his application for Romanian citizenship on Thursday, July 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mayor is a German citizen by birth and first arrived in Romania in 2003 after finishing high school. He worked for a year as a volunteer at a children’s home in the Freidorf neighborhood, where he also learned Romanian. He returned a few years later, getting involved in a series of social projects. In 2020, he was elected mayor of\u00a0Timi\u0219oara.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the smile of a Romanian in the making. Today I submitted my application to obtain Romanian citizenship,\u201d he wrote in a social media post accompanied by a selfie.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is that I have felt like one of you for a long time. Having a Romanian passport will be the official confirmation of a simple fact: for better or worse, I believe in Romania and its potential. I love this country and want to shape its future together with all of you,\u201d continued Fritz.<\/p>\n

Born in 1983, Dominic Fritz got a BA in Political Science from the University of University of Konstanz and continued his studies at Paris\u2019 Sciences Po. He was then chief of staff to former German president Horst K\u00f6hler for 4 years.<\/p>\n

Back in 2019, he sat down with Romania Insider for an interview<\/a> during which he said \u201cTimi\u0219oara is the only city in the world where I really feel part of a community – a creative, welcoming and lively community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dominic Fritz was elected mayor of Timi\u0219oara in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. According to European Union regulations, a European citizen living in another EU country has the right to vote and run in municipal and European elections in that country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, Romania, for this extraordinary journey you invited me on when I first set foot on your soil at 19. And thank you, Europe, for letting me be a Timi\u0219oara resident from the Black Forest, a German Romanian, and, above all, a free person among free people,\u201d Dominic Fritz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter it is thoroughly reviewed by the National Authority for Citizenship, I will be invited for an interview. If I give satisfactory answers, I will be called to take my citizenship oath. The whole process will take a few months,\u201d he added in a comment.<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: Dominic Fritz on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dominic Fritz, re-elected on June 9 as the mayor of Timi\u0219oara, a major city in western Romania, announced that he submitted his application for Romanian citizenship on Thursday, July 4.\u00a0 The mayor is a German citizen by birth and first arrived in Romania in 2003 after finishing high school. He worked for a year as […]<\/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-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}