Cătălin Cherecheș (born 7 July 1978) is a Romanian politician, currently quarantined in Rahova, after being detained in Germany, while waiting to be extradited to Romania.
[2] Between 2005 and 2007, Cherecheș was the vice president and spokesperson of the Maramureș County organization of the Social Democratic Party.
[5] In May 2011, following the criminal conviction of mayor Cristian Anghel, a by-election was held in Baia Mare.
[8] During the 2012 Romanian local elections, again as the candidate of the Social Liberal Union, he was reelected mayor of Baia Mare, receiving 44,239 votes (86.03%), far ahead of Democratic-Liberal Ștefan Pop, who received only 2,785 votes.
[3] Nevertheless, on 5 June 2016 Cherecheș ran as a candidate of the local Coalition for Baia Mare and was re-elected mayor while detained with 70.28% of the votes counted, according to the partial election results,[10] a first in Romanian politics.