PNL Bihor remained the only liberal organization in the country that did not make public the name of the candidate for the County Council, even though the figure of the current president of CJ Bihor and PNL Bihor, Ilie Bolojan, is displayed on the banners. BIHOREAN learned that Bolojan is tempted not to join the race, the final decision depending on a survey whose data has not yet been analyzed by the organization’s management.
Present on banners
Throughout the country, the candidacies of PNL representatives for the positions of presidents of the County Councils were submitted to the County Electoral Offices or publicly announced, on Wednesday also the one for the headship of CJ Prahova was registered, where the liberals go with the controversial Iulian Dumitrescu, despite the fact that he is being investigated by DNA for acts of corruption.
The only exception – i.e. the only county where the PNL did not submit to the BEJ the candidacies for the position of president of the County Council and those for the position of county councilor, nor did it publicly announce who will run – remained Bihor.
This, despite the fact that for two weeks now, banners of the liberal candidates can be seen at the town halls in the county, in which the figure of the current president of CJ Bihor and PNL Bihor, Ilie Bolojan, as well as that of vice president Mircea Mălan appears, and in Banners were installed in Oradea in which only Bolojan appears alongside the current mayor Florin Birta.
The Malan variant
According to some information from inside PNL Bihor, reasonThe reason for the delay in announcing the candidacy for the headship of Bihor CJ is that Bolojan is considering not to run for this position, if it is not necessary, leaving the vice mayor Mircea Mălan, who was also his collaborator at Oradea City Hall in the past years, as deputy mayor . The decision depends on the result of an opinion poll that will clarify the PNL Bihor leadership if the “rollover” will ensure the liberals the majority they want in the Council.
“Bolojan would like Mircea Mălan to no longer run for the position of president of CJ Bihor, for the second term, but we need to find out if in the second option we achieve our goals, just like in the scenario with Bolojan as a candidate: winning 50% plus one of the mandates from both the County Council and the Oradea Local Council. For now, we know that the objective can be achieved by having Bolojan as the candidate for the position of president of the CJ Bihor, but we still do not know the results of a survey that should show us whether the objective can also be achieved with Mălan as a candidate for the headship of the CJ Bihor”. he explained BIHOREAN a source from PNL Bihor.
Decision: Thursday evening
According to her, this poll was completed on Wednesday, and on Thursday it will be presented to the County Political Bureau of PNL Bihor, which will decide based on its results. “If the poll shows that we take half plus one of the councilor mandates both at the County Council and at the Oradea Local Council, with Mălan a candidate for the position of president of the Bihor Regional Council, the candidate will be Mălan, not Bolojan,” the source says.
Therefore, the decision regarding the candidacy for the headship of CJ Bihor will be taken by the PNL Bihor County Political Bureau on Thursday evening, and on Friday it would be subject to a validation of the party leadership at the central level.
At the Oradea City Hall, it is almost certain that the current mayor Florin Birta will run, who will try to get a second mandate, but his candidacy has not yet been formalized or publicly announced.
