Radu Ştefan Mazăre

Radu Ştefan Mazăre (born July 5, 1968) is a Romanian politician. He has already served one full term in office as Mayor of Constanţa, starting as an independent, but eventually becoming a Social Democratic Party (PSD) member. He was reelected in June 2004 and June 2008.

Career

An ex-journalist, he was involved in a famous incident where former President of Romania Ion Iliescu called a colleague of his "You, animal!".

Mazăre founded the "Telegraf" newspaper, the local Neptun TV channel and entered business as a shareholder of the Conpress Holding. He joined the Democratic Party (PD) and was elected in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies in 1996. He later resigned due to "differences between electoral promises and realities of government".Radu Mazare will go to Brazil after his current mandate.

Controversies

He is considered one of the top 300 richest people in Romania and is highly controversial due to accusations of being a Social Democratic Party (PSD) Local Baron. He controls a sizeable chunk of the media (TV stations and newspapers) and newspaper distribution networks in Constanţa County).

He is also known for having his name written on every project where the municipality was involved. For example, his name is written on every bus of the public transport of Constanţa.