This and other parts of its program strongly recall the nationalist agenda championed by former Social Democratic Party leader Liviu Dragnea before his conviction and imprisonment for corruption in May 2019.
Mirroring one of Dragnea’s favourite lines, the AUR even claims that multinationals sell Romanians substandard food that leads to the poisoning of some people.
In a way, the AUR has offered a nationalist option to voters who feel politically orphaned by Dragnea’s exit from politics, after which the Social Democrats – who came first on Sunday – distanced themselves from their former leader’s views.
The AUR also favours policies designed to ensure Romania’s self-sufficiency in energy, the prosecution those deemed responsible for ruinous privatisation projects in the 1990s and a tougher fight against illegal logging, banning the export of non-processed wood.
A party that defines itself as “anti-system” also demands an end to the use of the intelligence services against “the political adversaries of those in power”. It further proposes economic policies to curb massive emigration and reinvigorate the countryside.
As a nationalist party, it deems the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, UDMR – which made it into parliament again with 6 per cent of the vote, and represents the significant ethnic Hungarian minority – an “extremist” group.
The AUR conversely claims that the cultural rights of ethnic Romanians living in Hungarian-majority areas are being violated.
Last year, Simion was one of the Romanian nationalists who clashed with ethnic Hungarians at a mostly Hungarian cemetery in Transylvania, where the Romanian authorities had upset Hungarians by erecting Orthodox Church crosses.
In a leaflet featuring the party’s program, Simion explains his version of the cemetery incident under the dramatic epigraph: “How I was to die” – at the hands of “UDMR extremists”.
The AUR sees “families” as the cornerstone of society and advocates fiscal advantages for large families as a way to promote more births.
In an interview before the elections, Simion cited Poland’s ruling nationalist and socially conservative Law and Justice Party, PiS, as one of his models.
Asked if he would also promote an almost total ban on abortions, like the one adopted in Poland, Simion said: “We are for freedom of choice.” He added: “We consider life to be sacred from the moment of conception, but [abortion] remains a personal choice.”
Simion and other AUR leaders supported the 2017 referendum championed by conservative groups in Romania to constitutionally ban same sex marriages.”
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