Ion Aliman passed away on 17 September, at the age of 57, and to pay homage to him, his fellow citizens reconfirmed his mandate. At the end of the vote, the inhabitants of the small town in the south of the country went to the man’s grave, in the municipal cemetery, to celebrate his victory. A new vote will now be scheduled
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He was so well liked by his fellow citizens that the mayor of Deveselu, a small municipality in southern Romania, was re-elected in the municipal elections despite having died 11 days ago, due to the Coronavirus (LIVE UPDATES). Ion Aliman passed away on 17 September at the age of 57, and to pay homage to him, those entitled to him have reconfirmed his mandate, with 1,057 votes in favor out of 1,600. An election with a strong symbolic value, at the end of which the citizens went to the man’s grave, in the municipal cemetery, to celebrate his victory.
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A new vote will be scheduled
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As he also writes the Cnn, the mayor’s face had already been printed on all electoral posters, before he fell ill and died. The leaflets were therefore not removed. But a new election will now be rescheduled. “He was a real mayor for us”, explained a woman on ProTV TV, in Deveselu, “he was on the side of the town, and he respected all the rules. I don’t think we’ll see a mayor like that anymore.”
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The municipality of Deveselu and the US anti-missile system
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It is not the first time that the village of Deveselu finds itself at the center of the news: two years ago, a dispute broke out in the village caused by the 250 sheep owned by its resident, Dumitru Bleja, grazing too close to the US anti-missile plant and too often they triggered warning systems. In the name of the security of the military site, the farmer was then forced to demolish the shelter and graze the sheep elsewhere. His claim for damages, however, was rejected by the local justice.
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