Romania, 20 squats in 2 minutes and the bus is free: the mayor’s battle against obesity

Is called health ticket, in Romanian means “healthy ticket”: you have to do 20 squats or push-ups on the knees within the time limit of two minutes to get on buses or any other means of public transport in the city of Cluj Napoca without paying.

Sport in exchange for public services: the last frontier of the battle against obesity and junk food comes from the capital of Transylvania in Romania, a university city of at least 800 thousand inhabitants, one of the most important in the country, administered by the mayor since 2012 Emile Boc, of the Liberal Democratic Party.