She has been accused of spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda and anti-Semitic views. Known for opposing anti-Covid measures during the pandemic, she was expelled from the chamber of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in July 2024 after loudly interrupting debates. Her small party, SOS Romania, won 24 seats after securing some 7% of votes in December legislative elections.
The electoral office did, meanwhile, validate the candidacy of Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party leader George Simion, the most prominent figure on the far right following Georgescu’s exclusion. According to AUR, banning Sosoaca’s candidacy “represents a further blow to Romanian democracy and a serious violation of fundamental rights and freedoms.”
The eastern European state has been plunged into chaos since Georgescu’s surprise emergence in November on the back of a huge TikTok social media campaign which was marred by suspicions of Russian interference. In a highly rare outcome, the November election was immediately cancelled while Georgescu was definitively excluded this week from the election, whose first round is scheduled for May 4.
She was excluded last year too, nothing really changed. She’s as bad as Georgescu, from a somehow different angle, along with being openly antisemitic. I guess Europeans saw her in the EU Parliament.
Isn’t there a law against being a nazi in Romania? Why is she not behind the bars? If she’s not behind the bars why is she barred from running exactly?
There is a law, but it’s poorly worded, so it regularly fails (needs fixes). The constitutional court is not a criminal court.
She’s the perfect political distraction, a loud moron who spouts some of the vilest and downright stupidest things a human being will ever hear. She deserves to be kept out of politics because she is a moron, her political leanings needn’t even be included in considering her capabilities. Either way, it is a sad time in our history, the proliferation of Right-Wing ideas (and I’m talking about the hateful shit) in general should never have happened again.
We should have barred our far right for the same reason.
Did I miss it or did the article really not give a reason for her being barred from the election?
Like the other far right ones, she wants to take a big dump on the constitution and then set it on fire. That’s incompatible with holding the presidential office and others (including military) where the oath requires to protect the constitution.
https://www.constitutiaromaniei.ro/art-82-validarea-mandatului-si-depunerea-juramantului/
(1) Rezultatul alegerilor pentru funcţia de Preşedinte al României este validat de Curtea Constituţională.
The Constitutional Court validates (or invalidates) the election result.
(2) Candidatul a cărui alegere a fost validată depune în faţa Camerei Deputaţilor şi a Senatului, în şedinţă comună, următorul jurământ: “Jur să-mi dăruiesc toată puterea şi priceperea pentru propăşirea spirituală şi materială a poporului român, să respect Constituţia şi legile ţării, să apăr democraţia, drepturile şi libertăţile fundamentale ale cetăţenilor, suveranitatea, independenţa, unitatea şi integritatea teritorială a României. Aşa să-mi ajute Dumnezeu!”.
among others, the president swears to respect the Constitution
The CCR argued that her public discourse, including opposition to Romania’s European Union and NATO memberships, made her unfit to uphold the constitutional obligations of the presidency.
She had been excluded from last years election for the same reason. So this isn’t new.
I didn’t see anything about a violation of election law. All it said was she was known for pro-Kremlin, and anti-Semitic positions. I hope there’s more to this story or Romania is going to damage the credibility of their elections.
This may have been strictly procedure, since she was already banned once, from running in the first election run. But yes, when she was banned initially, the reasons were extremely vague ( russian interference and whatnot ) and haven’t gotten any better.
