Gabriela Firea

Gabriela Firea

Firea in 2014
Mayor of Bucharest
Assumed office
23 June 2016
Preceded by Răzvan Sava (interim)
Personal details
Born July 13, 1972
Bacău, Romania
Nationality Romanian
Political party Social Democratic Party
Religion Romanian Orthodox[1]

Gabriela Firea (born Gabriela Vrânceanu, July 13, 1972) is a Romanian journalist and politician who currently serves as mayor of Bucharest.

Born in Bacău, she has worked in radio, newspapers and television,[2] including as a news presenter.[3] A member of the Social Democratic Party, she was elected to the Romanian Senate in 2012 for an Ilfov County seat. She sat on the Senate's culture committee.[4]

She married Răsvan Firea in 1993; the couple had one son prior to his death in 2010. The following year, she married Florentin Pandele,[2] the mayor of Voluntari.[5]

At the June 2016 local election, Firea was elected the first female mayor of Bucharest.[6] She won 43% of the vote; her closest challengers, Nicușor Dan (Save Bucharest Union) and Cătălin Predoiu (National Liberal Party), won 30.5% and 11.2% respectively.[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ (Romanian) Lucian Negrea, Andrei Luca Popescu, "Intrată în cursa pentru Primărie, 'ortodoxa practicantă' Firea are o problemă cu moscheea aprobată de Ponta", Gândul, March 25, 2016
  2. 1 2 (Romanian) Anca Simionescu, "Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea: 'Pandele este singurul bărbat idem cu mine'", Evenimentul Zilei, February 5, 2012
  3. ↑ (Romanian) "Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea,prezentatoare TV: 'Prefer să fiu invidiată decât compătimită'", Adevărul, November 16, 2011
  4. ↑ (Romanian) 2012- profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site
  5. ↑ (Romanian) "Florentin Pandele, despre relaţia amoroasă cu Gabriela Vrânceanu Firea", Adevărul, September 6, 2010
  6. ↑ (Romanian) Ana Maria Lazăr, "Gabriela Firea – prima femeie primar a Capitalei după doar 4 ani de carieră politică", Mediafax, June 8, 2016
  7. ↑ (Romanian) Roxana Preda, "Rezultate finale alegeri locale 2016", Mediafax, June 10, 2016
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