19 Facts About Clotilde Armand

Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand was born on 28 June 1973 and is a French-born Romanian politician and businesswoman.

Clotilde Marie Brigitte Armand was born in Pointe-a-Pitre, France, where her father was undergoing alternative military service as a mathematics teacher.

Clotilde Armand's family was from Vichy, where she attended primary and secondary school.

Clotilde Armand studied at the Ecole Centrale Paris and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Sergiu Moroianu, a Romanian mathematician.

Clotilde Armand married Moroianu in 1997 and moved to Bucharest in 1999.

In 2002, Clotilde Armand worked for Airbus in France and Germany, managing part of the A380 project management team.

Between September 2013 and March 2017, Clotilde Armand was the head of the Romanian and Bulgarian branches of French engineering company Egis.

Nicusor Dan, a political activist and friend of Clotilde Armand's husband, founded a new party called Save Bucharest Union.

Clotilde Armand's campaign was based on anti-corruption and against politics as usual, arguing that "the political class has been separated from the true will of the people".

Clotilde Armand promised better management of public services, following the urban design model of Paris and building an esplanade surrounding the lakes in the northern part of the sector.

Clotilde Armand was one of only two women among the eight MP elected on the USR-PLUS list.

Clotilde Armand contended that most of the money in Europe flows from East to West, not the other way around and that since Western European companies have been making big money from EU-funded public procurements in Eastern Europe, it would be fair if structural funds were increased.

Clotilde Armand calls for a fair distribution of resources in the EU budget to compensate for brain-drain effects, like the 10 percent of Romanian doctors leaving the country every year to heal patients in the West.

Clotilde Armand was elected mayor of Sector 1 in September 2020 against Daniel Tudorache, and gave up her seat in the European Parliament.

Clotilde Armand's term was marked by the fierce disputes with the local council controlled by the coalition PSD-PNL, as Armand claimed she was trying to keep in check the costs of the waste management company Romprest.

Clotilde Armand publicly claimed that some of Romprest's unitary tariffs were 14 times higher than those of similar size cities elsewhere in Romania.

Clotilde Armand claimed that the elections in Sectors 1 and 2 were rigged by the government coalition and by the Central Electoral Bureau led by Tony Grebla, a former PSD member.

Clotilde Armand argues that Romania needs a change of the political class.

Clotilde Armand wrote an open letter to President Klaus Iohannis in which she asked the two main parties of Romania to apologize for their involvement in the June 1990 Mineriad and to remove former president Ion Iliescu and former Prime Minister Petre Roman from public life.