Politics
The mayor of Sibiu is Klaus Johannis, the president of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR). He was elected in 2000, being the first German mayor of a city in Romania since World War II. Johannis was overwhelmingly reelected in 2004 (with 88.7% of votes) and 2008 (with 83.3% of the votes cast) and his party gained an absolute majority in the city council. The German Forum also won the elections for mayor in the second and third most important towns in Sibiu county, Mediaş and Cisnădie, as well as one third (11 out of 33) of the seats in the county council.
This may seem surprising, as Germans make up less than 2% of Sibiu's population and less than 3% of the county population.
| Party | Seats in 2004 | Seats in 2008 | Current Council | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Forum of Germans | 16 | 14 | |||||||||||||||
| Democratic Liberal Party | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Social Democratic Party | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| National Liberal Party | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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