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Village re-elects dead mayor
What do you think about this story? BUCHAREST (Reuters) - The residents of a Romanian village knowingly voted in a dead man as their mayor in Sunday’s municipal election, preferring him to his living opponent.
Neculai Ivascu, 57, who ran the village for almost two decades, died from liver disease just after voting began – but still won the election by a margin of 23 votes.
A local official said the authorities decided to keep the poll open in case Ivascu’s opponent, Gheorghe Dobrescu, won, avoiding the need for a re-run.
“I know he died, but I don’t want change,” a pro-Ivascu villager told Romanian television.
In the end, election authorities gave the post to the runner-up, but some villagers and Ivascu’s party, the powerful opposition Social Democrat Party (PSD), have called for a new vote.
(Reporting by Marius Zaharia; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
It happened in West Wing, too.. It became a vote for the political party, and in memory of a good man.
I can think of a few cases where having a corpse as a mayor would’ve been better than the living alternative.
Good idea when all that’s running are empty suits, LOL !!
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