Vlad Gheorghe, an independent candidate for the DREPT party and a popular former MEP, said that while no Romanian politician “in their right mind would glorify the Nazi-aligned government,” far-right parties such as S.O.S. România and AUR latch onto controversial historical debates to deliver simplistic answers to real problems faced by average citizens.
“There are a lot of people in the country who are frustrated and have legitimate problems, so when someone like this comes along and says that another group is to blame for their problems, they start believing it,” he told POLITICO.
Now, Șoșoacă — who had been polling around 10 percent in the presidential race — is standing in the parliamentary election, to return to an institution she left mere months ago to join the European Parliament.
The major scandal that rocked the campaign so far came via AUR splinter party S.O.S. România and its antisemitic, pro-Russia leader Diana Șoșoacă. | Johannes Simon/Getty Images
The move follows calls from antisemitism monitoring groups to suspend her European Parliament immunity following her fascist outburst, and a previous seven-day suspension from the Brussels institution.
Gheorghe also filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court over her recent antisemitic remarks and included another S.O.S. România MEP, former TV personality Luis-Vicențiu Lazarus, in it as well.
“The prosecutor general announced that they started a preliminary investigation after I filed the complaint, but they can continue the investigation only if her EP immunity is lifted,” he said.
Should the scandals and narratives become a fixture of Romanian politics rather than a blip, the country will certainly garner more international attention — for all the wrong reasons.
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