George Simion

Romanian Nationalist Party to Start Operating in Moldova

The Alliance for the Union of Romanians, AUR announced on Monday that it plans to open branches in neighbouring Moldova as part of its campaign to reunify the country with Romania.

The AUR, which has 47 MPs in the 465-seat Romania parliament, is a nationalist party with a religious-based, anti-LGBT orientation and wants to impose a conservative, "patriotic" education system.

AUR's George Simion: I'll donate 90 pct of my MP salary

The Member of Parliament, Deputy George Simion, co-Chair of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) on Thursday said he will donate 90 per cent of his MP salary "to a civic cause, to special cases". "I want to make an announcement, an announcement that I did not make in the election campaign, because it would have been misinterpreted (...). I am an MP in the Romanian Parliament.

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