The most expensive elections

The elections for the Bucharest Mayor seemed to had been the most expensive elections in the history of Bucharest. As we can read in the newspapers, it seems that one vote costed 3 euro in the conditions where the Government allocated 50 milliards lei for the organizing of local elections and only 430 thousands of citizens from Bucharest went to vote. Reading the statistics, it seemed that for the general elections in December 2004, a citizen paid 1 euro for each round, in the conditions where the elections where for the President and for the two Chambers of the Parliament. The expensive costs of the elections for Bucharest Mayor came from the fact that they were many absent people if we consider that the Capital has about 2 millions of people. The truth is that the elections were shadowed by other events, like the death of the Pope and the disparition of the three journalists in Iraq.