Lisbon - The leader of a Romanian ultra-nationalist party said he would adopt some 70,000 stray dogs plaguing Bucharest, a Portuguese newspaper reported yesterday.
Bucharest's stray dogs were last year blamed for 20,000 attacks on residents, and the city began to cull the animals last month, despite protests by several animal protection associations.
But Mr Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of Romania's main right-wing party, the Greater Romania Party (PRM), said he would build a refuge for the strays on 20,000 square metres of land outside the city and given to him by "a rich man".