Cătălin Cherecheș (born July 7, 1978) is a

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politician who is currently serving as mayor of

Baia Mare Baia Mare ( , ; hu, Nagybánya; german: Frauenbach or Groß-Neustadt; la, Rivulus Dominarum) is a municipality along the Săsar River, in northwestern Romania; it is the capital of Maramureș County. The city lies in the region of Maramure� ...

since 2011.

Biography

Between 2005 and 2007, Cherecheș was the vice president and spokesperson of the

Maramureș County Maramureș County () is a county (județ) in Romania, in the Maramureș region. The county seat is Baia Mare. Name In Hungarian it is known as ''Máramaros megye'', in Ukrainian as Мараморо́щина, in German as ''Kreis Marmarosc ...

organization of the

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. Cherecheș was elected in 2008 to the Chamber of Deputies on the

. He resigned the party in February 2010, becoming an independent member of Parliament and in May 2010 joined the National Liberal Party. In May 2011, following the criminal conviction of mayor

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, a by-election was held in Baia Mare. Cherecheș was named candidate of the

Social Liberal Union The Social Liberal Union ( ro, Uniunea Social Liberală, USL) was a grand coalition of several political parties in Romania. The alliance contained two major centre-left and centre-right parties, more specifically the Social Democratic Party (PS ...

. He won the elections from the first round, getting 18,298 votes (51,66%). Following his election, he resigned from the Parliament. During the 2012 Romanian local elections, again as the candidate of the Social Liberal Union, he was reelected mayor of Baia Mare, receiving 44,239 votes (86.03%), far ahead of Democratic-Liberal Ștefan Pop, who received only 2,785 votes. In September 2013, Cherecheș joined the

National Union for the Progress of Romania The National Union for the Progress of Romania ( ro, Uniunea Națională pentru Progresul României, UNPR) is a political party in Romania. The party was formed in March 2010 by independents who had broken away from the Social Democratic Party (P ...

. Nevertheless, on 5 June 2016 Cherecheș ran as a candidate of the local Coalition for Baia Mare and was re-elected mayor while detained with 70.28% of the votes counted, according to the partial election results, a first in Romanian politics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chereches, Catalin 1978 births People from Baia Mare Social Democratic Party (Romania) politicians Mayors of places in Romania Living people National Union for the Progress of Romania politicians National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania)