Mayor ends hunger strike over cuts

Mayor ends hunger strike over cuts
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Summary The government handed his town extra funds for fuel oil.

Romanian mayor Florin Cazacu Saturday ended a six-day hunger strike over cuts in heating subsidies after the government handed his town extra funds for fuel oil. He said thousands of residents in Brad have shivered at homen after the government scrapped a centralized heating subsidy which, Cazacu said, left the central Romanian town with a 3 million lei ($912,500) shortfall.
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