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By Iulian Ernst in Bucharest Potential Social Democrat candidate Gabriela Firea has proposed herself for the post of Bucharest mayor, despite there being no agreement yet between the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its partners in government, the National Liberal Party (PNL) on a joint candidate for the position. Local elections are scheduled in Romania on June 9, and so far the battle for the Bucharest mayor has been the most animated in a year that will also see elections for the national and European parliaments, and the Romanian presidency. Before Firea, previously the first female mayor…