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'With their vote, the people of Timişoara...elected a European mayor for a European city. Timisoara was, is and will be a European city", Dominic Fritz told EUobserver on his win (Photo: Dominic Fritz/Facebook)

German wins election to be mayor of Romania's third city

The residents of Timişoara, Romania's third-largest city, on Sunday chose a new mayor for the next four years - who just happens to be a German, rather than Romanian, citizen.

Dominic Fritz won 54.8 percent of the vote, beating the incumbent Nicolae Robu - who lost his bid for a third term running the major economic and cultural hub of western Romania.

International attention on the 37-year old victor was fuelled by that fact that Fritz becomes the first foreigner to be elected ma...

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Cristian Gherasim is a freelance journalist contributing to EUobserver, Euronews, EU Reporter, Katoikos, Von Mises Institute, and bne IntelliNews, with a particular focus on European and regional affairs.

'With their vote, the people of Timişoara...elected a European mayor for a European city. Timisoara was, is and will be a European city", Dominic Fritz told EUobserver on his win (Photo: Dominic Fritz/Facebook)

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Cristian Gherasim is a freelance journalist contributing to EUobserver, Euronews, EU Reporter, Katoikos, Von Mises Institute, and bne IntelliNews, with a particular focus on European and regional affairs.

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