Ion Aliman was re-elected in a landslide for an unprecedented third term as mayor of his village despite having died from COVID-19 complications 10 days prior to the election.
After handing Ion Aliman victory in the election for their local mayor, residents of a small village in southern Romania went to his grave to light candles for him.
His death came too late to remove his name from Sunday's ballot, but the news of his passing spread fast through the village, home to just over 3000 people. The popular incumbent would have celebrated his 57th birthday on election day. Aliman was a member of the left-leaning Social Democrat Party, known as PSD, and so is his deputy, Nicolae Dobre, who told a local TV station, Digi24, that "none of the other contenders got the same trust from the voters".The election victory in Deveselu was a bit of sweet news, but only a little comfort for the PSD as partial preliminary results showed on Monday that they had lost the most closely watched contest – the one for the mayor of the capital, Bucharest.
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