{"id":8215,"date":"2025-12-19T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:00:48","slug":"newly-elected-mayor-ciprian-ciucu-takes-over-liberal-partys-leadership-in-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8215","title":{"rendered":"Newly elected mayor Ciprian Ciucu takes over Liberal Party&#8217;s leadership in Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/who-is-ciprian-ciucu-new-mayor-bucharest-2025\" target=\"_blank\">newly elected general mayor Ciprian Ciucu<\/a> (Liberal, PNL), a close collaborator of prime minister Ilie Bolojan, was elected by the party&#8217;s leading body to supervise the activity of PNL in Bucharest, as well as the seven Liberal members of the Bucharest City Council \u2013 a move seen as consolidating the prime minister&#8217;s position in the party.<\/p>\n<p>Ciucu thus replaces Hubert Thuma, an influential and prominent member of the Liberal party seen as leading the faction that opposes prime minister Bolojan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the party decided to give Ciucu power over Bucharest Liberal organisation, Thuma, who is also the vice-president of the party at the national level, will only supervise the PNL Ilfov organisation, according to sources familiar with the matter consulted by <a href=\"https:\/\/hotnews.ro\/ciprian-ciucu-ii-ia-locul-lui-hubert-thuma-si-preia-coordonarea-pnl-bucuresti-ce-decizii-a-mai-luat-pnl-intr-o-sedinta-la-care-a-participat-si-ilie-bolojan-2133958\" target=\"_blank\">Hotnews.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thuma was sentenced in 2014 to six months in prison with a suspended sentence for corruption, but was rehabilitated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the electoral campaign for Bucharest mayoral elections, Ciprian Ciucu told Digi24, speaking about Thuma, that \u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we have a collaboration now, to say the least.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Codrin Unici)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest&#8217;s newly elected general mayor Ciprian Ciucu (Liberal, PNL), a close collaborator of prime minister Ilie Bolojan, was elected by the party&#8217;s leading body to supervise the activity of PNL in Bucharest, as well as the seven Liberal members of the Bucharest City Council \u2013 a move seen as consolidating the prime minister&#8217;s position in [&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-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","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=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}