"Radu's mother is three year older than me and I told her from the beginning that I would not marry her. She insisted on having the baby; I didn't agree, but now I love him more than everything in the world".

The mayor Radu Mazăre showed up in the April Playboy, playing the part of a romantic gangster.

Considered by those from the male magazine as "the most controversial public male figure of Romania, a leader of national virility", Radu Mazăre answered "anxiously to questions asked within a non-conventional interview". Accompanied by an army of actors, figurants, script writers, photographers and directors, and even a bag full of dollars, the mayor posed very convincingly as Constanţa's Al Capone. Known as one of the politicians who are not afraid of words, Mazăre was willing to talk about a lot of controversial aspects, as: the political mob, the women in his life, a total lack of inhibitions of a convinced bachelor, frequent travels to exotic places and the temptations of a movie-like life style.

Here come some of the straight answers the mayor Radu Mazăre gave to Ramona Pop from Playboy.

"If the election campaign had not finished, I would have gone dressed in an army suit, like Fidel Castro. This has been my dressing style for the last two years: fancier. Now I am thrilled ‘cause I bought a red star cap from Viet Cong troupes in Vietnam, those who fought down the Americans."

"I am in dissonance with the rest of the Romanian political class. Do you know another mayor who would be almost very good at flying a kite, who would drive old fashion convertible cars?"

I have about 100,000 visualisations on hi5 and about 20,000 friends. And I want more. It's true that it wasn't my idea, it was the idea of a friend of mine in Bucharest, but I adopted it very quickly, although I'm not very fond of computer