A book fair in Bucharest: hundreds of people queuing up, all wanting to get their copies signed.
After three hours, Klaus Iohannis, the writer of the autobiography - Step by Step - stands up, the final book waiting for his pen. "If they queued up for me, I couldn't leave before signing the last copy”, he says.
Iohannis is Romania's newly-elected president.
After his surprise win on Sunday (16 November), when the German-speaking, Lutheran mayor of Sibiu became the first Rom...
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