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Romania: a stellar career

December 3, 2014

Romania's president-elect is Klaus Iohannis, a member of the country's German-speaking minority. The man who is widely seen as a model politician may be giving his hometown of Sibiu an economic boom.

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Iohannis's electoral victory came as a surprise. During the campaign, his rival, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, accused him not being a "true Romanian." Now many Romanians are looking to the ethnic German politician to bring about policy changes that will provide jobs and fight corruption.