Una dintre revistele pe care le vezi în mâna miilor de oameni care călătoresc în fiecare dimineaţă cu metroul londonez se cheamă Shortlist. Conţine o grămadă de ştiri scurte, numai bune de digerat între King’s Cross şi Liverpool st. Una dintre ştiri se cheamă “The 10 most unorthodox mayors”. Doi dintre cei zece mi-au atras atenţia în mod deosebit:

4. Iulian Florea
In 2007, former boxer-turned-mayor Iulian Florea was in a heated discussion with his fellow councillors in a remote Romanian village over budgets. He didn’t like what they were saying so he gave a quick left hook/uppercut combo to two before turning his fists on the others.

7. Gheorghe Funar
In 1993, Mayor Funar was displeased with the fact that many of his constituents were of Hungarian and German descent. To make them feel unwelcome, he told the civil servants of Cluj-Napoca, a town in Romania, to paint the Romanian flag on every public piece of property to show the immigrants whose town it really was.

Spre uimirea mea, toate numele sunt scrise corect!!!