Supporting Ukraine in its fights towards Russia's full-scale warfare is crucial for Romania's safety, Romanian presidential candidate and Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan mentioned in an interview with Reuters printed on April 24.
"I wish to underline that the warfare in Ukraine is crucial for the safety of Romania and Moldova," Dan mentioned. "I admire what the Romanian state has performed to date, the path… was appropriate and should proceed."
All through the warfare, Romania, a NATO member, signed a safety settlement with Ukraine, backed sanctions towards Russia, and despatched Kyiv a Patriot air protection system. Bucharest has additionally performed an important position within the transit of Ukrainian agricultural exports amid Russia's threats to the Black Sea maritime commerce.
Dan believes that Romania ought to proceed to facilitate the export of Ukrainian grain, but it surely ought to seek the advice of with Romanian producers to make sure they aren’t put at a drawback.
Romanian farmers requested the federal government final yr to push for import limits on Ukrainian agricultural merchandise, protesting the financial impacts of an EU free commerce settlement that has sparked worries about uneven competitors and dangers to home manufacturing.
Dan, 55, was elected mayor of Bucharest in 2020 with help from center-right events. Identified for his background as a mathematician and civic activist, Dan based the Save Bucharest Union, which developed into the reformist USR occasion, a political motion with an anti-corruption platform.
Romania's presidential elections had been scheduled for a re-run on Could 4. The November vote was annulled resulting from allegations of Russian interference favoring far-right candidate Calin Georgescu.
Georgescu was barred from collaborating within the presidential election re-run. George Simion, chief of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), who’s banned from getting into Ukraine over "anti-Ukrainian actions," is at the moment main the polls.
Opinion surveys present that Dan is competing for second place with Crin Antonescu, a centrist backed by the ruling coalition, and Victor Ponta, a nationalist ex-prime minister.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Denisova