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After winning, he declared the purpose of the office to be "not just administrative in character, but also social", claiming that "we worked 50 years for the center , we should work 5 years for the outskirts". Consequently, he created a series of non-partisan
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Dobrescu's leftist convictions eventually brought him into conflict with the PNȚ: he left in
December 1935 to establish his own political movement, which took the name of the popular institution he had helped create — the
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National
Liberal government and was removed from office 13 November 1933; the move caused a scandal, and Dobrescu was reinstated as mayor on 26 November, only to be deposed by the new
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said that "wherever you look in
Bucharest: widened streets, open squares, open perspectives, creative westernisation, the name of Dimitrie Dobrescu comes to your lips".
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most streets (with measures take to replace the many types of pavement in use with a single material); radical measures in
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295:Iron Guard
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68:Văcărești
53:Biography
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352:See also
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