Sector 5 (Bucharest)

Sector in Municipality of Bucharest, Romania

Sector 5 (Romanian: Sectorul 5) is an administrative unit of Bucharest.

Quarters

The six sectors of Bucharest

• 13 Septembrie
• Cotroceni
• Ferentari
• Ghencea
• Giurgiului
• Odăi
• Rahova
• Sălaj

Politics

From 2020 until May 2022, the mayor of the sector was Cristian Popescu Piedone, a member of the Social Liberal Humanist Party (PUSL) and former mayor of Sector 4. He was elected in 2020 for a four-year term, defeating incumbent Daniel Florea, who had been mayor since 2016. In May 2022, vice-mayor Mircea Nicolaidis took over as interim mayor of Sector 5.^[1] In June 2023 he was released and came back in his office due to the fact he was never removed from this position.^[2]

The Local Council of Sector 5 has 27 seats, with the following party composition (as of 2020):

References

1. "Cine a preluat atribuțiile primarului sectorului 5, Cristian Popescu Piedone, după condamnarea acestuia la 4 ani de închisoare". HotNews (in Romanian). May 12, 2022. Retrieved June 2, 2022.
2. "Cristian Popescu Piedone a revenit în funcția de primar al Sectorului 5". www.economica.net (in Romanian). June 27, 2023. Retrieved November 4, 2023.