Tomorrow is Election Day. 18 million Romanians are entitled to elect the mayors and councillors who will run their towns and cities for the next four years. Bucharest City Hall is hotly contested and so are many races around the country. On Tuesday we will have a special edition dedicated to the elections, with all the results and analyses. This week the number of coronavirus infections increased again. On a high note, the Bucharest Stock Market was classified as “emerging market”. All this and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.

Romanian Dispatch #7 (September 19-25, 2020)