"Fidel Castro conquered Cuba with less than 13 people", said Radu Mazăre the mayor. The city father has also a team of his own: Ştefănică, Preda, Constantinescu, Alexandru Mazăre, Marinescu, Martin, Moga, Oprişan, Bazac, Voicu, Ion Iliescu and Brăiloiu
The mayor Radu Mazăre is seen as the leader of a group. Not a very large group, but a gang fastened by business liaisons, common political creeds, dreams of megalomania and winning elections.
Mazăre was never ashamed to follow his political interest and make friends with the most important players of the local political life. A newer strategy, dictated especially by the success in the local and parliamentary elections, is placing the members of his team into strategic positions. The team are spreading, while Mazăre is winning. He even afforded to offer the management of some local institutions to people from other parties, people which he said he trusted, although they were not lined up to the social-democrat doctrine. And his explanation: "You know, I don't like people moving from one party to another just for the sake of keeping a certain position. You know, Fidel Castro conquered Cuba with less than 13 people".
Well, who are these 13 people who helped Mazăre-Castro subdue Constanţa and now is trying to gain also superior fora? For, as he accounted for not long ago, he would not refuse the prime minister position. Here are the 13 members of Radu (Fidel) Mazăre (Castro) team which catch the eye at first glance.
Environmental tandem: Nicolae and Virginia
The first one to be nominalised is certainly the ex vice-mayor, Nicolae Nemirschi. Considered, for a long period of time, the gray matter of Mazăre gang, presently Minister of the Environment, he won one of the most important battles, which Radu Mazăre had long been fighting, back in the times when the chief of the environment
