Aliman won his third term as mayor of Deveselu, with 64 per cent of the vote, electoral bureau data showed on Monday. "He was a real mayor to us," one woman who wore a surgical mask told private television station ProTV in Deveselu. Aliman, a former navy officer who would have turned 57 on Monday, died on Sept. 17 in a hospital in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. In 2008, a village in eastern Romania also knowingly re-elected their mayor who had died just after voting began. Romania has reported 123,944 COVID-19 infections since late February, with 4,748 deaths, the highest fatality rate in the European Union's eastern region.

Source: CBC News September 28, 2020 14:50 UTC