Dan desperate
While opinion polls had started to tighten during the last week of the campaign, Simion, 38, had been favored to win the runoff after winning the first round with 41% of the votes against 21% of Dan.
“After the first round, people on our side felt a little desperate,” said Dan, sitting in the history of the Bistrot Caffe in the center of Făgăraș, with his partner and his family at the next table. “Mr. Simion has made a lot of mistakes,” he added, among them, refusing to run for televised debates.
Dan and Simion struggle directly once – a three -hour affair that the observers agreed took advantage of the mayor. While Simion spent a large part of the time attacking his strong and aggressively opponent, Dan remained calm, offering methodical answers and refusing to be attracted in a match in Argorat.
And it is really his style: angry, technical, intellectual and not interest the game or political theater. By background, Dan is a gifted mathematician, twice winning the international mathematical Olympiad as a young man, and he previously said that he would return to the academic world if he had to leave politics.
His other world can clearly be disconcerting for opponents who prefer a political street fight with intellectual analysis. In the last days of the campaign, Simion caused an uproar by calling Dan “autistic”.
Breakfast English
Unlike many leaders who grow and ambitious, Dan has no punitive training routine to boast. Instead, he stays in the cup by jumping evening meals. As he arrives at the restaurant, he is ready for his “English breakfast” of eggs, bacon, sausages, beans and toast.
