With daily coronavirus infection rates continuing to hover around 1,200, no one really knows what September will bring. If it is up to the newly elected PSD’s leader Marcel Ciolacu we will not have a government as of next week. But COVID-19 is unlikely to interfere with the local elections elections on September 27. There is a hotly contested mayoral race in Târgu Mureș. Smart mobility options keep expanding in Romania while new data show that Romanian migrant workers seem to be reluctant to return to Western Europe after they got back to Romania during the lockdown this spring. You will find out about these developments and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.
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l pasado 19 de junio, viernes, Bucarest fue escenario de una muerte de novela. Las redacciones de los periódicos ya se preparaban para irse de fin de semana cuando llegó el comunicado de la Policía: un hombre extranjero de 52 años había fallecido en un céntrico hotel de la capital rumana tras caer de uno de los pisos superiores.
Romania is gearing up for local elections on September 24 and mayoral races around the country promise to be full of suspense. Schools are getting ready to re-open too, although the high rate of COVID-19 infections may be a spoiler. That and more in this week’s Romanian Dispatch.
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The body of Gholamreza Mansouri, a former judge wanted on corruption charges, will be returned from Romania to Iran once coronavirus restrictions have been lifted, Abbas Mousavi, the spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry announced in a press conference on July 13.
Iran has urged the Romanian government to clarify the cause of death of Gholamreza Mansouri, the former judge who was found dead at a Bucharest hotel on Friday, June 19.
New facts have emerged surrounding the death of the former judge Gholamreza Mansouri, whose body was found in a Bucharest hotel last Friday, June 19. Shortly before the fall inside Hotel Duke, Mansouri had paid for his accommodation and packed his bags, say sources close to the team of investigators. Among his personal belongings, the police found several mobile phones and SIM cards, local media reported.
Today the Bucharest police homicide department continues its investigation into the death of Gholamreza Mansouri, the former judge who was found dead in a Bucharest hotel on the afternoon of Friday, June 19. As part of suspicions surrounding Mansouri’s death, questions have arisen about possible political bias in the investigation, as both Romanian authorities and the Iranian foreign ministry immediately assumed Mansouri committed suicide.
Former judge Gholamreza Mansouri was found dead in a Bucharest hotel, where he was waiting for a decision on his extradition from Romania. He reportedly jumped or was thrown from the hotel’s fifth floor.
