Why the Nationalist Right is on the Rise in Romania

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Right-wing party AUR's popularity is rising in Romania in a shift that could hurt the country's strong support for Ukraine during the war. So in this video, we'll explore who AUR are, what they stand for and how they might influence Romanian politics.
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2 - news.yahoo.com/romania-inaugu...
3 - foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/27/...
4 - www.aktual24.ro/sondaj-insoma...
5 - balkaninsight.com/2023/11/15/...
6 - www.politico.eu/europe-poll-o...
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9 - www.rferl.org/a/moldova-unifi...
10 - www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
11 - www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1...
12 - www.ft.com/content/31af3e55-9...
13 - www.i24news.tv/en/news/intern...
14 - www.euronews.com/2023/11/02/i...
15 - www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/...
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00:00 Introduction
01:42 Context
03:33 Rise of the AUR
06:30 How AUR Could Influence Romanian Politics
08:22 Too Long (The Newspaper)

[@DJFROSTOfficiall]

I love how you said in the last 3 years Romania has gone through an impressive 3 PMs, whilst here in the uk it took 3 months to go through that many

[@adrianstere]

😂😂😂😂

[@AlexDaniel-lu8nm]

Im a romanian living uk,its crazy how fast they go😅 but i admire the british for the atitude they take on the matter

[@S10wGuY]

I mean.. key here is the fact the UK was seen as a bastion of stability prior to Cameron and the instability unleashed by Brexit.. The same can't be said for Romania

[@ooltimu]

​@@userAndrew5it pretty much is, but Romanians don't seem to understand that. Presidents don't have any word in the internal matters of the country except in crysis or war time.

[@Karmacoming4you]

​@@userAndrew5 the head of the country is a ficus, wich has the legal powers of a ficus. Greatest power of the President is that he can reject a law, max 1 time, then he has to pass it. Parlament makes the laws and Government enforces them. They are the real,, head of the country''

[@DoriZuza]

05:52 minority, not majority 02:23 socialist, not soviet (as stated in other comments, it does make for a pretty good joke / insult)

[@cscmusictv]

07:13 Elections are next year, not this year. (I guess Ben was too distracted by Argentina's elections which've just happened)

[@LiviuGelea]

Freudian slip. And a pretty accurate one at that

[@dorinionita1907]

well, PSDs are communists, so where's the fault?

[@albertiulianharasemiuc3386]

Also George Simion does not have kids yet and Sosoaca did not left by her own will, she was kicked by George himself

[@tarciniusmateescu3497]

And what you are showing is not Greater Romania

[@joaovitormatos8147]

I know Ben has done a Faustian deal that requires him to mispronounce every single foreign word, but how did he manage to mispronounce "diaspora"?

[@eris9062]

Yeah that caught me really off guard

[@arthurpecanha1840]

timestamp please

[@Tabako-san]

I thought I was going crazy when he kept mispronouncing Tuvalu last week, turns out this is just a consistent thing. I'd hope that they'd at least double check pronunciations online before publishing a video.

[@havencat9337]

he is just not giving a S*** on Romania or EE countries and our names.... thats all, pure elitism

[@seadkolasinac7220]

@@havencat9337 no, clearly not. They pronounce all non-English names badly. It isn't specific to Romania or EE. Is it elitism? Who knows. It's certainly lazy

[@wizzzer1337]

I don't think Romanians, even the more right wing Romanians will cozy up to Russia. Romania in patricular have a bitter relationship with the former USSR, and even the Russian Empire. this bad blood runs old. I just don't see any right wing politician, no matter how cunning- can bring Romanians under Russian influence without being seen as a borderline traitor. Romania is much like Poland, conservative, but unlike Hungary, I don't see a populist like Orban having such a power grab

[@octavianpopescu4776]

But the far-right WILL try to sell it that way. They and a lot of people have a very selective interpretation of history and they will pretend that the robbery and dictatorships of the past brought by Moscow didn't really happen. But make no mistake about it, you can't be a patriot and pro-putin at the same time. The threat to the East is the last real threat to our development. The rest have all fallen: Habsburgs and Ottomans, but putin is still around.

[@cuber5003]

Yeah same, I'm not sure why people keep claiming this will happen, right wing governments took hold in Finland and Sweden very recently, neither have gotten close to Russia. In fact their relationship to Russia is almost as bad as it was a century ago.

[@thematthew761]

Does Romania have a tricky relationship historically with Ukraine?

[@lillinux1639]

very tricky

[@FunAngelo2005]

I hope so

[@KillingPae]

There's also a bit of missing context. Voting in Romania is generally done by exclusion. You don't vote with AUR because you support them, you vote them because you hate them less than the others. People hated both PNL and PSD and then USR rose up. Afterwards they started hating USR too and now AUR is the new kid.

[@000Dragon50000]

Pretty sure that's how Aussie, American AND UK politics are working right now. Though all three of them are stuck in the "Centrist nothing party vs. the right wing make shit worse party" paradigm. That bit is different, but yeah most people here and in all of these countries seem to also be voting along "these guys suck less" lines. It was probably just taken for a given lol.

[@chaddixon9764]

I don't think you watched the video. He literally called them a "protest party" and then goes on to describe that grand coalitions disenfranchise people.

[@juangomezfuentes8825]

Still very stupid to vote a anti EU party. If there is a country that needs the EU that is Romania.

[@FiG044]

AUR is made with people from PSD and PNL.... AUR is PSD + PNL. =)))))

[@starhalv2427]

Sounds a lot like Polish politics, except thankfully Confederation is hated even more rather than less than other political parties.

[@ovidiuradu1695]

Also, it might not be obvious from the UK, but a good boost to AUR's popularity and anti European sentiment in Romania, is Austria's veto against ascension to Schengen. This a big deal right now in Romania; and every time Austria votes against, AUR gains a few percents more. I wouldn't be shocked if they will be the number one party in Ro next year.

[@FiG044]

Wow... So smart. So if Russ, excuse me, Austria has something with Romania, AUR and Simion who represent Russia in Romania shoul gain votes?

[@tudor-octavian4520]

@@FiG044 The point is that a increasing number of Romanian citizens have become displeased with the EU and the Western countries, to the point where they are starting to think of breaking away like the UK did or just starting to act like Hungary. Not to mention that the growing idea of turning the EU into one big federal country is not something that Romania is too keen on. It's sad that the only party that voices these concerns is the AUR (which, from my points of view, despite what is being said in the media, is aligned with Russia). Some of their policy ideas are good, but not at the cost of trading the EU for the Russian Federation

[@FiG044]

@@tudor-octavian4520 i would rather run.. Than live in Romania with Aur... 😂

[@tudor-octavian4520]

@@FiG044 agreed

[@andreasschmidt5857]

As an Austrian I am ashamed by the populistic veto of my country against Romania´s ascension to Schengen. There´s no factual arguments for that, it´s simply stupid actionism by our government. Nevertheless imo this is no reason to vote for a pro-Russian party.

[@Potatoes85858]

It's a hungarian minority, not a majority, and the presidential elections are schedule for next year, not in the next few weeks, but great video overall despite the few "typos" here and there.

[@Caius1930]

It really does amaze me how often mistakes such as these make it through. And wonder how difficult it must really be for them to at least google name pronounciations and make some attempt. Not very professional at all but they do lack the budget i guess

[@yarpen26]

​@Caius1930 Churning out videos one after another for ad revenues. Nothing more to it. They just keep on shitting out this crap about countries that they have no knowledge of because there's an election coming up somewhere in the EU at any point in time. It's hilarious how under their "Why is Meloni so popular?" video there were tons of Italians saying how she'll drop in the polls a year from then and guess what...? 😂

[@thematthew761]

Hungarians are a majority in some regions@@Caius1930

[@shway1]

@@Caius1930 there are so many instances of bad pronunciation I can only assume they've watched very few videos about politics in their lives. must only read articles.

[@albertiulianharasemiuc3386]

​@@Caius1930I think they use ChatGPT a simple research on the subject would cause them to have so many mistakes

[@shieldwallclonetroopers145]

Even though AUR may be on the rise, it’s extremely unlikely Romania will be allied to Russia, due to all the historical clashes between them. Just like in Poland, russians are kinda hated in Romania

[@lucapepel5851]

Exact

[@lukegaldau7905]

How hates Russians in Romania? I don’t think that’s true

[@lucapepel5851]

@@lukegaldau7905 Toată lumea. Ruşii au adus comunismul, pentru ei noi nu nu eram altceva decât o colonie. La fel suntem si pentru Americani.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@lukegaldau7905 It is very true. Ordinary Romanians hate Russia with a passion.

[@zuraorokamono204]

​@@lukegaldau7905I don't think the average Romanian hates the Russian culture itself, but the effects of centuries of Russian invasions are still to be seen today and the expansionist attitude Russia is currently displaying is still perceived as the number 1 threat to Romanian national security.

[@AndreiDante]

As a Romanian myself, "Romania: Putin's next ally" this would never happen, we don't share the same values, nor do we want the same thing from our future. So this won't happen with Romanian's will, might happen against our will but we won't agree to Putin's shitty stuff ever.

[@iuliuslovin37]

@AndreiDante depends if we are vocal enough and if we go to vote to stop the mad people like Sosoaca especially who is outright pro-Russian...

[@vbylt90]

I don't know about you my fellow Romanians but there's a parallel reality to the one we know that's why Ceaușescu execution was rushed judged and executed within 2 h also many different worlds events that's not clarified and kept classified so those informations don't form a portal for those parallel realities to interact together if this ever happens the gatekeepers wouldn't be able to keep hidden the low vibrations reality which we are not aware of but still part of it

[@mack2432]

as a romanian myself i think it depends on how the WEF agenda will be pushed on us ......between two evil you will choose the smaller one and in this case i think Rusia is the smaller evil !

[@e1123581321345589144]

@@iuliuslovin37 Simion is also getting lots funds from the Kremlin. He's not as obvious as Șosoacă but he's also a Russian plant.

[@e1123581321345589144]

It's going to happen. Politicians in Romania have lost touch with the people altogether. The only ones who keep a dialog with the common people are AUR and what they're doing is just amplifying their fears in order to win votes. And most sensible people won't go out to vote because they feel disgusted with the politicians. AUR might just become the largest party in parliament next year. They're certainly on track for that and the others have no way to counteract their strategy.

[@hjge1012]

I know nothing about Romanian politics, but literally all parties sound like hot garbage.

[@DacianRider]

USR would be the closest thing to SOME hope... but yeah, everything else IS hot garbage.

[@DacianRider]

@@userAndrew5 they're the least worst option, by far.

[@fulgeralbastru]

@@userAndrew5 they did not, they actually did better than expected, even connvinced the eu to let us include road infrastructure in PNRR. Also they have 0 convcted people so far while PSD and PPNl have countless coruption scandals

[@redbepis4600]

You're correct, but some are more garbage than others

[@shieldwallclonetroopers145]

@@DacianRiderUSR party is too progressive I wouldn’t want BS being indoctrinated into kids like LGBTQIA+ propaganda and stuff like that

[@CountDuckEgg]

5:49 'Romania's Hungarian majority' Why does TLDR make so many basic mistakes like this every video? Are videos ever proofed before they are published?

[@abygorsonabor7982]

because they are basic meme cretins who like to hear themselves talk about things they don't know anything about

[@123_1]

in some area they are actually majority

[@Un_pelican_pe_varf_de_munte]

@@123_1very few!, and Im from one of so “called” majority areas which in reality ist not anymore

[@123_1]

and you are proud of it...@@Un_pelican_pe_varf_de_munte

[@Un_pelican_pe_varf_de_munte]

@@123_1 idk, what I said ist a fact!!!

[@remusgogu7545]

Bit of historical context. Russia has done immense harm to Romania post WW2 by essentially ripping apart Romanian territory and partly incorporating it in present Ukraine (parts of Basarabia, Snake Island), and partly forming independent Moldova. In all honesty Ukraine has done very little to accommodate Romanian minority in those areas, and as such prior to current Ukraine war the relationships between Romania and Ukraine were understandably very cold. Now with the war, there is significant support in Romania for Ukraine as both countries care to limit Russia’s influence in the region. I was personally very pleasantly surprised to meet and discover Ukrainian refugees living in Romania, and grow fond of some of the people I met. Romania has indeed a very large diaspora, I heard somewhere we are second in the world (probably as %). Most of these people are working in wester countries and adhering to western style of thinking. I have a hard time believing that a significant part of Romanians would support Russia…

[@purcelusucafeniu]

Vezi ca avem 80% din platoul insulei serpilor, restul de 20 la ucraineni, conform deciziei tribunalului de la Haga. Aia 20% sunt doar o stanca de dimensiuni mai mari si atat.

[@xc6013]

ukraine did not accommodate romanian minority in ukraine, it oppressed and forcefully made them ukraineans. Meanwhile ukrainean minority in romania is treated properly and are allowed to maintain their culture and identity

[@purcelusucafeniu]

@@xc6013 taci in plm ca nu stii absolut nimic despre minoritatalea romaneasca de acolo. Efectiv mesteci si tu propaganda aur venita de la moscova

[@FictionCautious]

At this point, considering the absolute insanity of the west, Russia would be a much better option. And no, most romanians dont support the inhuman regime in Kiev. The politicans do because they only serve bruxelles for 30+years, not their own people. It's Demoncracy!

[@ionelghiorghita688]

I don't know if Ukraine is better than Russia for the romanians but with the increasing power of China, and BRICS and the good relationship of Hungary with them, we isolated our self waiting miracles from the westerners and Americans who actually were just use us as a colony. So we fucked up the chance of leading the good relationship with China and the Americans will leave very quickly when the shit will stink a bit more. All we need is to have no-one available to speak with the Russians and Hungary will try again what they did in '89 - 90 :to split Romania as they did with Yugoslavia. So we are the rain sons.

[@CrownedAnarchy]

i know Soviet Democrats was a misspeak but it's really quite funny and apt

[@SynthSeer77]

Soviet democrats, I should use this term more often when referring to PSD

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

Best unintended joke in the video.

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

Here in America we see the democrats as reminiscent of the Soviets hahahaha

[@davidblair9877]

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123dude, the Democrats are many things, but communist isn’t one of them. When has any Democratic politician proposed nationalizing an industry?

[@gabrielvrabie2512]

Their honorific president was a very close friend of Ceausescu which makes it even funnier

[@Ballaurus]

He said "Soviet democrats" at 2:23. 😂 Very close to the truth.

[@shway1]

it's a center-left socially conservative party

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

Soviet means council unless you are against literally any fucking form of democracy then idk what you even mean by this

[@surecom12]

No, its not nearly close to the truth and it is very insulting to Romanians and i will report the video right now. Romania was NEVER a soviet country!

[@doom8082]

@@surecom12 Lol, butthurt. Iliescu one of the founding members of PSD is one the best friends of the soviets.

[@doom8082]

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Clearly, soviet is a term that has caught a certain meaning (akin to being part of or friendly with the USSR) that you are ignoring.

[@shinydewott]

The AUR logo is really smart when you think about it. It's the borders of Romania; but the Eastern part is obscured, which showcases (with plausible deniability) their irridentist claims eastward

[@octavianpopescu4776]

They can shove the claims up where the sun don't shine. The borders are fine as they are. Same goes for Orban who wants our Transylvania. How many more millions must die before Europe stops fighting itself over who owns 2 towns and a village? Brothers killing brothers... Were the wars of the past not enough? Any union with Moldova must be done legally, peacefully and orderly. Everyone must agree with it of their own free will. Anything short of that must be rejected. I don't want parts of Moldova or Ukraine, I don't want to conquer anyone, this has never been our way. Plus, the parts which did belong to us and are now in Ukraine, 1. don't have any majority Romanian population and 2. Moscow did the partition, not Kyiv. Ukrainians didn't take anything from us, Moscow did. Moscow signed the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, not Kyiv. Ukraine was just as much a victim of Moscow as everyone.

[@cuber5003]

I don't get how they could be pro Russia, wouldn't a greater Romania be completely against Russia's geopolitical goals?

[@21preend42]

​@@cuber5003 It is indirectly supporting them. If Romania stops supporting Ukraine, Russia will have a better chance to win against Ukraine. That's the idea.

[@omucapomu69420]

​@@21preend42AUR is not pro Russia All evidence for it it questionable at best

[@Bobogdan258]

@@cuber5003 Romanians don't tolerate anything pro-Russia, so the only thing left for Russia to promote is the kind policies that AUR and Sosoaca promote

[@ioanaraducanu6049]

I think that AUR is closer to PSD than PNL. In Romania PSD is much more socially conservative than PNL. They even held a referendum against gay marriage a while ago. If anything PSD might shift towards more populist talking points as opposed to PNL (whose voter based is more urban and young and thus more socially progressive).

[@CristianDudut]

I don't know, it feels like PNL is losing their traditional voters. They will without any doubt lose votes.

[@omucapomu69420]

It is not the PSD who held the refferendum,it took place because people signed for it on 2016, Psd delayed it in fact

[@Bobogdan258]

PSD also pushed some pretty nationalist arguments and rhetoric against the saxon Klaus Iohannis (Iohannis also tried to benefit from nationalism against Sevil Shhaideh, who was proposed to be the first muslim woman PM in Europe, when he could've just said she was a security risk for being married to Assad's Health minister), they employ euro-skepticism when they see fit, PSD members have also joined numerous far right nationalist parties too.

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

You are completely wrong! AUR is or isn't a right wing party? PSD is or isn't a left wing party? In this case AUR is closer to PNL and USR is closer to PSD (the same ideas of "equality" between individuals which is a leftist concept!)

[@Mathewnr1]

@@omucapomu69420 It is PSD who promoted the referendum and made it available over the weekend, unlike any other election, with the church backing them. And it still failed.

[@MrCayasha]

as a romanian I can tell many of us feel that Europe (mainly Austria, Netherlands, France) is treating us with superiority. Hope we can make more deals with countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and Turkyie instead of begging in our knees to be approved in schngen.

[@FaraStiriRO]

Adevarat

[@LmaoOldAccount]

One correction I haven't found in the comments: at 7:12 it was said "presidential elections scheduled for November this year"; the elections are in fact, November next year, in 2024.

[@MoonlightEmbrace]

"The Soviet Democrats" =)))))))))))))))))) Thanks, Iliescu's life expectancy just rose with another 50 years just hearing that.

[@xyzalexzyx]

Finally a video on Romania.

[@jonkeuviuhc1641]

A shame it's a poorly researched one.

[@cristibrad6742]

@@jonkeuviuhc1641 I stand firmly by that unless one lives in Romania it is impossible to understand or to explain what is going on there. The problem is you can not use 99% of the media coverage to then formulate an opinion. This is because when a politician talks nothing must be taken at face value other than tax increases or electoral 'bonuses' to certain voting classes within the society. The only source a foreigner can use is the actual documents created and approved, so basically only investigative journalism, and that is intentionally a huge pain.

[@idontfrickingknow2064]

3 prime ministers in 3 years? join the club romania :)

[@octavianpopescu4776]

We're founding members of the club 😀

[@megatron1717]

@@octavianpopescu4776 XDDD

[@amethyst2823]

At least the transition between the last two was agreed upon from the beginning and properly executed. It didn't come with a fundamental change of government.

[@cristibrad6742]

the last 2 PM's were agreed beforehand as a 'rotative' concept. Probably never before seen in Europe before it happened in Romania. Both PM's were known since the latest PSD PNL bromance agreement.

[@chairpara]

5:51: Correction: I think you meant to say “hungarian minority” not majority

[@meyes1098]

There's a misunderstanding about left/right in Romania. While PSD and AUR seem like they're on opposite ends, they're actually much, much more similar. PSD while it's considered a "left" party, it's actually more conservative than anything, and AUR is ultra conservative. Also the problem is that AUR is actually making some very good points. Especially when it comes to Ukraine and the war. For example, the issue with the grain imports is a bit more nuanced: Ukraine was allowed to export their grains into Romania without any checks whatsoever, and without needing to adhere to any of the EU's quality standards, and what ended up happening was that Ukrainian grains got into Romania, but they were very low quality, some even suffering from pests and shit, and they were extremely cheap. So then these inferior shit grains made our local farmers LITERALLY waste megatons of grains because they couldn't sell it.

[@ismail-paine-de-circ]

if romanian grain is better, why romanian don't sell it to west? :D exactly! how much you will cry when ukraine will be in EU?

[@Screcy]

@@ismail-paine-de-circ Did you not just read the comment?

[@dinurusanu7902]

@@ismail-paine-de-circba tu ai citit macar comentariul inainte sa raspunzi?

[@Eltener123]

@@ismail-paine-de-circ if Ukrainian grain is better why do they have to beg and guilt trip the west into buying it

[@lynxlecher9547]

They don't even know the difference between left and right in Romania 🤣🤣🤣

[@escu8628]

"Romania Putin's next ally in Europe?" by its offensive character for a romanian is the strongest clickbait I've come across lately. Otherwise it's a pretty good material.

[@TrespassingPilot129]

It is not offensive. I am Romanian and I admire Putin as a president.

[@escu8628]

@@TrespassingPilot129 Only 6% of Romanian citizens read books and about 40-50% are complete idiots who say it was better in Ceaușescu's time.

[@FaraStiriRO]

@@TrespassingPilot129Si eu

[@thewatermelon9227]

@@TrespassingPilot129 so you as a romanian admire the atrocities made by russians during ww2? or the fact that our gold treasure has been stole by russians during ww1?

[@Eoin-B]

In the "is europe shifting right" thumbnail, Ireland is highlighted, though for the first time ever a left wing party had a majority and since then has been steadily been gaining in popularity. Ireland has never shifted left of centre-right since the 1950s... For the first time in 60 years Ireland is leaning left.

[@nigelraporam6917]

It'll be a dark day for ireland when shinners get into power

[@liquidsnake6879]

Isn't the President still center-right?

[@tomaszargentynczyk8635]

same for Poland, that just had an election and the right-wing parties lost for the left-center ones

[@filiprohn1643]

@@alexpokrandt4378 Third way is. PO is a mixed bag, but recently shifted more to the center left

[@tomaszargentynczyk8635]

@@alexpokrandt4378 I don't know what are the criteria to judge what's center, center-left or center-right. Main point is that the opposition consists of KO that is rather centric (has intent to liberalize women and LGBT rights for instance), Third Way (rather centric-right) and Lewica that is left. Together you got ruling party that is centric + centric-right + way left. All of them support European Union and have pro-western goals.

[@cristianbogdan2760]

Nationalist is back ❤

[@omi685]

AUR = 🚾

[@thebigmasterx458]

Thanks for making a video about my country TLDR.

[@Sneikki]

If the AUR ever wants Moldova and Romania to reunite then Russia has to lose the war. In this sense they should be actively actually supporting Ukraine. Also most Moldovans are right now vert pro-EU.

[@ionbrad6753]

True.

[@TrespassingPilot129]

There is other way: Romania should negociate with Russia and offer to exit NATO in exchange that Russia will allow Romania and Moldova to unite. We don't need Russia an enemy, we need it as a friend. And we don't care about Ucraine it can be taken all by Russia because it is historically a part of it, exactly like Moldova a part of Romania.

[@ionbrad6753]

@@TrespassingPilot129 ... except Russia never kept its promises. We (Moldovan Romanians) have a huge experience in this matter. Remember the Lutsk treaty, in which they were guaranteeing Moldova's territory from Carpatians to Nistru? A century later, they broke Moldova in pieces! Remember 1877-1878, when they asked to cross our territory to fight the Ottomans, then asked for help cause they were obliterated at Plevna, then we helped, then they grabbed Cahul, Bolgrad, Ismail (again)? Remember the Briand-Kellogg treaty of 1928? - and the Treaty of London of July 1933, according to which Moscow and Bucharest subscribed to the principle of non-violent resolution of territorial disputes? Then (1940) they invaded not only the eastern side of Moldova (Bessarabia), but North Bucovina as well? Remember the guatantees they gave to Ukraine in 1994 in Budapest? Remember the bilateral Ukraine - Russia treaty of "friendship"? All these are just toilet paper for Russia.

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

You're like an average person giving insights. You are right, but only on the surface. Russians don't want to attack the West; they pose no danger to the democracies in the EU. They have an issue with Ukraine, but it is much more complicated. Ukraine has their share of oppression towards Moldavians and Romanians. The fact that AUR does not want to help Ukraine is because it is a senseless war dragged out by the West with the purpose of holding Ukraine souveranity. The effect, on the other hand, is destabilising the region. Not wanting to help Ukraine sentiment in Romania is, in principle, the same reason as wanting to help Ukraine sentiment coming from the UK.

[@thegarfield2414]

1. AUR has no chance of winning parliamentary elections in Romania against PSD. 2. Even if they do that, they would not have a majority in Parliament and a coalition will be formed against them. 3. Romania will never become Russia's ally. 4. AUR is not really pro Russia. 5. Their electorate will never be larger that 25%(note that during parliamentary elections only 40% of the people actually vote). 6. The parties that will enter Parliament next year will be: PSD probably around 30% PNL probably around 20% AUR probably around 20% USR probably around 12% UDMR(hungarian party) 6%. None of the other parties will enter a coalition with AUR. 7. Once every ten years we have a nationalist party like AUR who usually gets around 10-12% of the votes and then they slowly dissappear.

[@4tech404]

Very brave of you to think PSD or AUR won't buddy up to govern together. They already vote the same laws and a part of PSD is very conservative and eurosceptic.

[@omucapomu69420]

​@@4tech404very naive of you to think they will LOL you are dumb

[@deionutz]

The perfect opposition, never in power definitely necessary!!

[@deionutz]

ah manca-mi-ai virgula

[@eugenandrone2019]

1.AUR is financed by Kremlin 2. PSD is founded by a double secret agent, Ion Iliescu, which was also a KGB agent just like Putin 3. Yes, AUR and PSD will team up toghether. That's Kremlin's plan. 4. Simion is a fascist and you are a russian troll who's trying to influence people's opinion.

[@adineatha9766]

All countries who are already in the EU should also be part of Schengen 👍

[@veronicab15]

Romania has been treated like a second hand citizen in EU.

[@KodLiokoSrbija]

So glad TLDR team could finally afford a desk!

[@Obi-Wan___99]

Yes, it's completely understandable, because in Romania now, as we speek, as a worker in a company you get like 400 net salary/month, while food is more expensive than in Western Europe. I say this because I know everyday. I was an engineer for almost 15 years in some companies and after all this experience this summer I decided to quit for the moment this career in Romania, because I earned like 1100 euro net, which is very little, having a family and 2 kids and having prices for food more expensive than in Germany for example. So I said fuck it!! I'm a truck driver now, and I'm earning 3x the money. 😊 It's somehow sad, but it is what it is.... Of course extremism is on the rise!!

[@jami1972]

exactly. Until there is 3-4:1 ratio in salaries compared to western EU, EU is a joke. All economic details now harmonized in Europe, except salaries. A clear robbery of eastern europe, mainly driven by western companies and helped by EU.

[@FaraStiriRO]

Nu as clasifica AUR ca extremisti, m-am uitat pe programul lor de guvernare si chiar au niste idei foarte bune. As zice ca majoritatea extremistilor din AUR s-au reorientat catre partidul SOS Romania a lui Sosoaca.

[@ourmadness6238]

It's rich to say the nationalist right had just recently been on the rise. In reality, our current ruling parties are nationalist, right-wing populist parties. It's been long since PSD had been an actual social democrat party, or PNL a national liberal. AUR are surely more to the right, but they are, in large, a byproduct of the hegemony PSD and PNL aimed (and achieved) to create, which in itself is a huge issue, to which AUR is obviously no real solution. Hence, the political left in Romania is basically dead, without adequate representation for now, and as the video said, the ruling coalition doesn't seem to have any intent of sliding towards the left in any capacity, but the opposite.

[@wile123456]

Utterly depressing that shifting towards the right is the norm for "social" democratic parties across Europe.

[@ourmadness6238]

@@wile123456 To be fair, I wasn't alive the last time PSD was social democrat (I'm 21). Kidding aside, PSD (and PNL too) are cemented as right-wing populists.

[@bloodwargaming3662]

​@@wile123456then soc Dems question why Socialists hate social democrats

[@Nemerian]

" In reality, our current ruling parties are nationalist, right-wing populist parties." Nope, outside of the smaller parties, which actually try to apply their ideology more, if there's one thing Romanian politics is known for, it's being milequoast to the extreme. And i would be curious as to what you consider the real left(specifically, and not just "like in the West").

[@bloodwargaming3662]

@@Nemerian if you think psd and other parties in Romania aren't right wing, either you a facist with the imagination of political spectrum be far right or you don't know anything

[@dagda101]

I'm from Romania and i would like to say that your report is quite accurate. Thank you for doing a good job. I can add a bit of depth for anyone who is interested. The coalition didn't do a good job in the past 5-6 years and Romania is facing some problems right now because of it. Plus the problems brought on by general bigger picture issues of the pandemic and war and so on. For example sinking the country into massive debt and inflation, or the problems in agriculture with grain and honey prices, just to name a few. Naturally people are angry and uncertain and this is where AUR comes in (they have been around for some time now, feeding on the discontent of the diaspora). They are trying to do and/or to say anything they can to present themselves as the solution, both for the bigger picture issues and the shameful incompetence of the current establishment, while also being openly and painfully obvious pro kremlin (their leaders where seen multiple times with russian "diplomats" and so on). It's pretty obvious what's going on here, a russian backed wedge trying to force itself into a substantial crack formed by justified anger and worry of the population. This being said, i wouldn't worry about them too much. In the sense that they won't get power in Romania, because people are more or less aware of what i said above and they won't gather that much support. The situation is not to be taken lightly though, but it's not dire yet. Funny part is that the coalition is so bad that it pushes people into AUR arms, in spite of them doing everything they can do be as repulsive as possible. Even so, the people in AUR are way to nasty and ripe with scandal and controversy to even be taken too seriously. Romanian society is aslo way too pro EU and west. The good part is, that they actually represent the very angry voices in Romania and their presence forces the current establishment to act in ways which are in our interest. Just by their strategy of transforming everything into a ping-pong game in which they say the opposite of whatever the coalition says, is benefiting us, specially when the subjects hits something on which people of both sides of the spectrum can agree upon. Like limiting daily allowed cash transaction to 2000 RON (400 euro) for example.

[@stefandinu6389]

Yes,I wouldn't be too concerned either. As long as young people vote. Younger people in romania are lore and more progressive so if they turn out to vote AUR has no chance.

[@havencat9337]

i am young and i will vote for AUR. you guys can continue to vote PSD and PNL...its crazy to expect something new voting for the same

[@stefandinu6389]

@@havencat9337 there are other parties too not just psd and pnl but ok

[@ionionescu6777]

cine crezi tu ca-ti citeste manifestul?

[@stormruner9183]

​@@ionionescu6777Aş spune că merită să fie citit, este o descriere destul de precisă a situației actuale politice.

[@DacianRider]

as a Romanian, I say NO to this sort of garbage and NO to Putrid and his war dogs !!

[@raduromanesti6408]

As a Romanian i Say Aur is Pro Eu and Pro Nato and Anti Russia

[@iulianviorelmosteanu2800]

AUR is not pro-Russia doe, they're just against helping Ukraine, a country that recently passed down laws that discriminate Romanians living in Ukraine.

[@DacianRider]

@@iulianviorelmosteanu2800 so, basically " how to say you're stupid without saying you're stupid " BEING AGAINST helping Ukraine = helping russia ... dingus !

[@iulianviorelmosteanu2800]

@@DacianRider, how so? How about not helping either of them, especially considering how the Ukrainians treat us. If you have a beef with me and a stranger decides to not help me, does that mean he s helping you? What kind of stupid logic are you using.

[@DacianRider]

@@iulianviorelmosteanu2800 learn to move on idjot ! doesn't matter what their ancestors did, under the horrible soviet regime ! be a fcking human being for once and move the F on !! and even if you can't stand Ukraine, what does your peanut brain think will happen when you become neighbors with ruzzia ?? Ukraine will seem like the perfect neighbor by then !! also, your peanut brain doesn't seem to comprehend that we're living in a interconnected world & we need to have good trade relations with neighbors.

[@Nemerian]

Lost it at "soviet democrats" 2:23 :)) True, though.

[@brezoianuirinel3959]

The AUR party is a sad joke, imagine Aur as a person like Andrew Tate

[@mkh7370]

based

[@plb506]

@@mkh7370taran

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@mkh7370 how old are you? grow up

[@lynxlecher9547]

The leader is worse than Andrew Tate.

[@ceahlau]

That's genuinely the most retarded comparison I've ever heard

[@tiberiusn4621]

I was wondering when we'd finally be featured here for this very subject. Finally made it! 😅

[@lynxlecher9547]

Yeah, the ydyotic leader of AUR is having a party as we speak, celebrating.

[@gaborrajnai6213]

There is a clear difference between not liking Russians or Ukrainians, or giving up billions upon billions of your stuff, to support a guy, who you dont like.

[@didierverschatse6422]

you mean like Putin sending billions to puppet politicians he doesn't like but serve his agenda :) ?

[@doom8082]

Except you are "giving up" billions to upkeep a buffer state between you and a dictator like Putin. Romanians (myself included) would HATE having a land border with Russia (if it were to conquer UKR)

[@xc6013]

for a cause you don't agree with on top of it.. nato expansionism, getting us closer and closer to the end

[@mariano4762]

Come to Romania and first see at the custom is 6km length of truks waiting in line. Some prices in supermarkets are in general higher than Europe western countries…Thanks Austria, Russia is happy for how things are developing in Romania

[@fernbedek6302]

If AUR wants Moldova then’s need to figure out Transnistria. So, supporting Ukraine might be in their best interest.

[@amethyst2823]

The guy has misrepresented this part. The Ukrainians and Moldavians forbade Simion to enter their countries because of his documented connections with the Russians, not because of his unionism. There are other unionists who were actually given honorary positions in Moldova. A large section of Moldova's population, almost half, is unionist. Ukrainian Secret Services affirmed that they have proof Simion has ties with Russia.

[@lucian-emilgusa6185]

​@@amethyst2823well then, whre's the proof?

[@999mi999]

@@amethyst2823 Oh wow, really? The Ukrainians found documents that linked him to their enemies, to Russia? The guy that leads a party that lays claim to the former Romanian territories that are now part of Ukraine? What a surprise, i can't believe they would do that. Oh, and they found nothing about the guys that only wish for the union of Moldova and Romania? Extraordinary.

[@Medvedev_Dmitry2008]

Yes they could make a deal with Russia giving them Transnitria and Russia allowing them to unit with Romania

[@amethyst2823]

@@lucian-emilgusa6185 I am sure that those who need to know got it. It was convincing enough for Moldova, apparently.

[@ooltimu]

Parties in Romania are left or right only by name. Local party members go from one party to the other as they see fit (depending on which party wins the elections). Also, the current AUR voters come mainly from the nationalist wing of PSD (left) which was anti-UE. I very much doubt AUR took voters from PNL.

[@GarfieldRex]

I'm tired of media saying "far right" and "center right", "the right", but always use it as a label, never explain what it is, the differences. Just to indirectly lead the viewer to think some are bad per se.

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

I can help! Right: nation, church, family. Left: international, atheist, sexual freedom. Center: both ideas Left: mainly left ideas with democratic sounding Radical left: majority left ideas imposed harshly (the opposing are going to jail, are striped by their rights etc.) Extremist left: only left ideas imposed by killing the opposition.

[@lynxlecher9547]

It's basically reformed communists vs religious freaks who are against immigration.

[@premadesetups]

dont worry in Romania we don't know the difference between the right and the left netiher

[@vladniculae6114]

Thanks for covering us :)

[@galsven1]

This video is pretty accurate for a 10 minutes video. Romania's political landscape is far more diverse. In the 90s, FSN was formed from former communist political activist and split into FDSN/PDSR/PSD and PD/PD-L(later becoming part of the PNL(a party whcih was stolen by the former Securitate officers in the name of a historical political party during the monarchy). USR appearead as pro-European protest party in 2015-2016, they gained 22% at the Euros in 2019, but something gas happened with them. Very important to mention that George Simion met with FSB officers. George Simion and Diana Sosoaca are dangers for our security.

[@Un_pelican_pe_varf_de_munte]

Ye ye so accurate that they said “hungarian majority” in the wrong context 😂😂

[@radu4281]

Nu-i nicio dovadă că Simion s a întâlnit cu cineva din FSB

[@SoB_626]

@@radu4281 Clar cã nu. Simion + Pootin = Love.

[@radu4281]

@@SoB_626 e ușor să mănânci căcat, dar sa dai o sursa e mai greu

[@eduardperhinschi5057]

@@SoB_626 esti securist

[@dannyc2488]

The outcome of this 'grand coalition' isn't suprising. İmagine if the Tories and Labour banded together in the UK, what could the outcome of that be for political situation here? Voters would have no choice BUT to vote for small or fringe parties 😮

[@cgt3704]

Uh they actually did one during ww2

[@SoB_626]

I like to think that in UK there are still decent people no matter the party, unlike in Romania.

[@AlexDumitracheCry0it]

It's interesting that the USR wasn't mentioned at all

[@DacianRider]

the only safe option so far.

[@veronicab15]

@@DacianRider Given that the EU pretty much just voted that national constitutions don't matter, the EU constitution overrules them, and that USR is up in EU's a$$, I would definitely not think them the safest option. They're just as garbage as the rest, only use different vocabulary. They all sell us out, have no spine, and don't really think about the people.

[@OxygenIsGay]

The actual reason why Romania becomes more nationalist is they just chose nationalist focus tree

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

Like many other European "nationalist" parties, AUR has repeatedly whined about the EU, but it's in no hurry to push for Romania exiting it.

[@lucapepel5851]

Corect. Motive pentru care orice om cu bun simţ îşi va da seama că AUR e un jeg de partid plin de trădători şi mincinoşi. Aşa că votul nu rezolvă nimic băieţi, pe oricine votaţi tot membru a cartelului media mafia este.

[@DacianRider]

don't let imbeciles talk you out of your vote ! go out and vote for your future ! contribute to democracy, instead of listening to brain dead uneducated hicks.

[@cgabriel777]

They are not against EU and Nato. This topic is not very popular amoung Romanians. doesn't bring votes.

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

Because they can just ignore the rules of both organisations and Brussels is too toothless to do anything. Basically what Britain should have done if it wasn't too proud

[@stormruner9183]

It's generally a good video, but a bit shallow (understandably so). The most important thing, that I think should've been emphasized, is that despite their names, PSD is very much socially conservative while PNL is more liberal (not too much tho). So if anything, AUR's populist influence could move PSD to be even more right wing regarding social issues, while PNL is in a bit of identity crisis right now. USR is not disenfranchised (yet), but they are slowly becoming quite unpopular, however their voter base is really distant from AUR's ideas, so that won't help them either. Lastly, UDMR is getting the 5% from the hungarian minority to keep them in parlament. I think PSD is going to win the most from this situation. They have a stable 25-35% voter base, and moderate conservatives who don't want either PNL or USR on power are more likely to vote for PSD rather than AUR (even if PSD shifts slightly to the right).

[@GholaTleilaxu]

USR is 100% (correction, 90%, there are still some lost elements inside it) left-wing, progressive, woke party. They are just *LYING* to be right-winged. The Liberal Party poses as right-winged in Romania, even though in the Anglo-Saxon world "liberal" is considered to be a left-wing ideology. "Liberal" in Romania stands for CORPORATIVE CAPITALIST *LIBERTY* to exploit the masses of dumb peons.

[@raullllll5750]

As a romanian we will never be Russia friends because we have 100+years of bad history with them and this Simion guy is just a joke with weird dreams, he has no chance against Genoa

[@DacianRider]

Geoană for the win !

[@ionbrad6753]

True. But the Russia which did bad things to Romania included our neighbors which are the victims today. They (the neighbors) lobbied Molotov in 1940 to break North Bucovina from Romania alongside Bessarabia. They also lobbied within the Kremlin for breaking Bessarabia (future Moldavian SSR), too - making it a land-locked republic. Don't get me wrong: clearly Russia is the aggressor here and international law should be respected, in favor of Ukraine. But if we speak history, we should be impartial: to each, its own.

[@RaduRadonys]

@@DacianRider Who? "Am infrant, Mihaela, dragostea mea?" That one?? LOL :))

[@DacianRider]

@@RaduRadonys no, the NATO secretary deputy general. For the clown you're trying to portray, just look in the mirror.

[@RaduRadonys]

@@DacianRider You must be younger than 14. Go back to your toys.

[@RoughPerspective]

Please make a video about the Bulgarian equivalent of AUR

[@AquaTofana.]

Omg.. you guys have your AUR too? 😂

[@iulianviorelmosteanu2800]

@@AquaTofana. , hopefully. Europe needs a national revival

[@andizglimbea6067]

4:00 Simion didn't face deportation from Moldovo for being an unionist, that is a popular ideea in both Moldova and Romania, he faced deportation for possible connections with russian intelligence, as ex modavian defense minister said earlier this year.

[@diurpaneustv2166]

Actually he was deported from Moldova by Igor Dodon and Vladimir Plahotniuc, both with strong ties to Russia

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

Connection that he did not prove, despite saying there is concrete proof. In reality he was kicked out because his unionist policy and activism colluded with the interests of those in Moldova that want to maintain an independent state and the so called 'civic nation'.

[@Vlad-yi6oo]

​@@Kalimdor199Menegrothofcourse. Only the corrupt and oportunistic politicians wants "independent Moldova" only for their interest.

[@cristibrad6742]

@@Kalimdor199Menegroth funny, leave an explanation as to why Simion is interdicted also in Ukraine while you are at it.

[@valentinstoyanov304]

The current political situation in Romania seems to be extremely similar to the one in Bulgaria. The only major difference is that the Bulgarian president Radev is pro-Russian and the Romanian president has a clear pro-EU and pro-NATO profile...

[@SoB_626]

Yeah, but it's only the profile, the substance is something else altogether.

Feedback on video production: the videos without the desk are better :) It's a (subtle yet tangible) barrier between you as a speaker and the viewers.

[@bogdanpetcu5247]

You are wrong. Romania is not pro russian. There is a growing nationalist trend but its not as big as others think. We are latins. We have nothing in common with Russia.

[@ady007b]

What you mean is not knowingly pro-russian, that's why Tovaras Simon is trying to frame is as a anti-ukraine, not pro-russia. Because going direcly pro-russia would be unpalatable to the romanian electorate. So instead you push for pro-Ru policies by selling them as somethin else. Classic KGB/FSB manipulation move.

[@TheMihaiMarinescu]

I am now against the EU (Schengen and PNRR are my reasons). I consider EU as our enemy! Russia is also against the EU and an EU enemy. The enemy of your enemy is your friend! I hate Russia but I hate EU more!

[@cLaw27]

The influence of AUR in Romania ends where the online ends. Outside of the internet, their numbers are just shy of a couple of thousands. Multiple local branches had to shut down and move their activities completely online because they lack physical membera.

[@margcantelli4723]

A few things worth mentioning: AUR has been accused, both by a former minister of foreign affairs in moldova and a ukrainian paper, to have had secret meetings with fsb agents in both countries. The other co-founder of AUR was also in charge of renovating the only building in the capital that has russian shareholding.

[@Sandokan-sj5zh]

Being accused of anything is worth nothing without proof. And also, being accused of something by a country you want to stop military aid to , without any proof is worth even less. Also , today I bought mustard seeds and when I got home I took a look on the package and they were imported from Russia. Am I pro Russian too? In 2015 leftist media accused Russia of destroying a historical building because that building needed renovation. Now the leftist media accused the ones that renovated the building of being pro-Russian. Funny , eh ?

[@razvansfirlogea3134]

Unsubstantiated garbage. No proof.

[@laurentiumocacoca175]

Braindead.

[@barbusbogdan7]

Ah yes fellow supporter of Malin Bot. Nice to meet you 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

[@TrespassingPilot129]

Are you s mindless drone?

[@realthunder6556]

Pretty solid explanation, just lacked the context of not being allowed in Schengen and an ever decreasing voter turnout also does not help

[@mihaipantiru8054]

Everyone sees Russia as the great evil. But what do you think about USA? As a Romanian, I am not pro-Russia, but in the same time I agree with what AUR thinks about EU and NATO!

[@mihaelapopescu7686]

As a romanian I will tell you that never ever Romania will be Russia's ally . You don't know a thing of what this animosity is about ...and for so many hundreds of years. When you are a neighbour to Russia you will do what you can to protect yourself and what you can to survive. No. You don't know anything about the terror, the crimes, the pain, the torture caused for us unfortunatelly by Russia ... I say unfortunatelly because of it's great culture ... but no, romanians will never be friends with russians or allies. Nope. When 70 years ago 2 million people were killed by bolsevics (imprisonned and killed 90% of them) ... you can't forget something like that. Ok, after that comunism was installed but those 2 million were the intelectuals, priests, proffesors, students, doctors, enginneers etc ... Those days you were declared enemy of the party only if you were the son or the daughter of someone that had a bachelor degree ... No, is too soon to forget what happend in our country. If you think romanian comunism was from Romania you should read more history. After the 2nd world war Europe's split was decided on a restaurant table, on a napkin ... That was so simple to decide who lives in freedom and who dies under the comunism. And there were a lot of dead people. If you never heard of Aiud prison, Pitesti experiment prison you don't know a thing about Europe's recent history . So, once again, no. Never Romania will be an ally of Russia.

[@Zero4Infinitives]

AUR means gold in Romanian but it is actually from the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians.

[@omarmyia]

The Romanian Orthodox Church violently disproves of the AUR political discourse.

[@cristibrad6742]

they are the biggest backers of AUR and PSD, how about owning the truth? For God and Jesus are light and truth after all. Same goes to the romanian Kiril, the legendary "Preafericitul Teodosie".

[@philodendron6]

'Rhoumania's Hungarian majority.' Gosh!

[@DacianRider]

everyone makes mistakes. lol

[@yarpen26]

​@@DacianRiderDo these guys ever _not_ though?

[@lildreadnaught]

This video hit 122k views as I started watching.

[@troskygames8798]

Nationalists should ask a Finnish winter war vets when it come to isolation "we had to fight alone"

[@GholaTleilaxu]

Yeah, sad truth and a shame to the rest of us.

[@amethyst2823]

A nuance lost on this video's author is that the Ukrainians and Moldavians forbade Simion to enter their countries because of his documented connections with the Russians, not because of his unionism. There are other unionists who were actually given honorary positions in Moldova. A large section of Moldova's population, almost half, is unionist. Ukrainian Secret Services affirmed that they have proof Simion has ties with Russia.

[@laurentiumocacoca175]

Ofc Ukranians want him down after him pushing the idea of not supplying them with money, military aid and shit.. It seems so damn clear, how we still fall for it?

[@FictionCautious]

It's a known fact that the regimes of Moldova and Ukraine are puppets of WEF Bruxelles, ruling against their own people. WEF only wants division and chaos. The past few years have proven that to be true.

[@TrespassingPilot129]

Are you trol?

[@MatejJokic-sw2kh]

If I were a Romanian I would vote for them.

[@sergenuyar6635]

I'm a member of the party

[@FaraStiriRO]

Im a Romanian and I will vote for them. Time to get PNL and USR out of the Parliament.

[@user-wi94725]

Traiasca Romania!

[@adriangeorgedumitru4696]

The3 simplest way to prove one's ignorance in terms of politics, war, economy etc is to talk about Romania. the Western world is usually ignorant as to Eastern Europe, but when it comes to Romania... this ignorance turns out to be stupidity. So, Romania is Putin's next ally in Europe? To even think about this question proves that 1. one ignores everything Russia 2. one ignores everything about Europe and the EU politix 3. one ignores everything about Romania 4. one ignores everything about Russia, Europe, the Eu and Europe. Plus everything about the history of this places, their specifics and their particularities. As for this so-called analysis - learn Romanian and read some history.

[@BlackLixt]

trea sa mance si ei un cacat pe ziua de azi nu? ahahaha

[@ceahlau]

Yeah that thumbnail is actual garbage

[@FictionCautious]

The so-called west seem ignorant about anything really. Also easy to prove by reality/

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Summary of this video - Video sponsored by "Too Long, the official TLDR newspaper" - Ukrainian President Zelensky visited Romania on October 10th to seek support for Ukraine's war effort. - Romania, traditionally pro-Ukraine, has provided military aid and established a training center for Ukrainian pilots. - Zelensky canceled a speech in front of the Romanian parliament due to anticipated protests by the ultra-nationalist group Aur. - Aur, meaning gold in Romanian, has gained popularity and is described as a far-right party with anti-EU and anti-NATO sentiments. - The party's surge is attributed to discontent with the political establishment and economic challenges in Romania. - Romania's political history involves frequent changes in leadership, with the current government facing economic difficulties and corruption scandals. - Aur's leader, George Simion, initially focused on the reunification of Moldova with Romania and later shifted the party's focus to the war in Ukraine. - Aur's rise is seen as part of a broader trend of right-wing nationalist parties gaining traction across Europe. - Simion has faced criticism for his anti-vaccination stance but has moderated some party rhetoric to broaden its appeal. - Despite Aur's increasing support, it is not likely to directly impact policy or unseat the current government in the near term. - The Romanian government announced a strategic partnership with Ukraine despite canceling Zelensky's speech. - Aur's growing popularity could indirectly influence mainstream political parties, pushing them to adopt more right-leaning policies. - The upcoming presidential elections in November show Aur polling third with 19%, behind independent candidate Maia Sandu. - If Aur continues to gain support, mainstream parties might adjust their policies to appeal to disenchanted voters. - The video concludes with a sponsorship plug for the TLDR newspaper and a 20% discount code for purchases.

[@aariyanmahmud301]

thank you so much for this great summary it is detailed but only takes a couple of minutes to read

[@st.altair4936]

Finally, a TLDR for TLDR

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

Thank the scary AI overlord @@aariyanmahmud301

[@avengerulsasuke5814]

Maia Sandu is the president of the Republic of Moldova.

[@patriarch7237]

Did Zelensky cancel the speech? Or did the Romanian government stop him delivering it? Pretty sure he would give a speech whenever and whereever he could.

[@cristibrad6742]

Small correction. The only proven pro EU party is the Save Romania Union (USR). PSD and PNL, since the legislative cycle that generated the mass pro EU protests and mass beatings of protesters thanks to PSD having an absolute majority alone, both have been continuing the same practices started since then, after the model of what Rusia did after the collapse of the USSR. Hopefully Romania will get the next year an outcome such as Poland and not like Turkey.

[@SoB_626]

Say it as it is, man. PSD, PNL, AUR are the representatives of ruzzia in Romania. There was no lustration in '89 and the country has borne that burden ever since. It's really like a bad case of fleas.

[@premadesetups]

I am romanian and I will vote for USR

[@GholaTleilaxu]

@@premadesetups Why?

[@premadesetups]

@@GholaTleilaxu they are the most pro capitalism , unlike all the other parties that think the government should own companies, and they are also very pro european

[@GholaTleilaxu]

@@premadesetups Are they, the Unionists Sal(i)vating Romania also pro-progressivism, pro-LGBTQ+, pro-inclusiveness, pro-woke and pro-BLM et al, all LEFT-winged ideals and desires?

[@lols12169]

I mean, just because they might become more nationalist doesn't necessarily mean pro-Russian. Poland's nationalist party was very anti-Russian.

[@4tech404]

Sadly that's exactly what it means in this case. AUR party leader has ties with the russians and even if he isn't openly for Russia, he does push a lot of their talking points.

[@adrianjiga]

How do you know what AUR stands for? Have you looked them up? Or talking out of your ass to seem like you have an informed opinion

[@user-ox9kw2kk9d]

does not cutting arms support to Ukraine mean being pro-russian?

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

We will never be pro Russia, if somehow a pro russian Government will be established( which is very unlikely) and will somehow start to help Russia or it will block aid to Ukraine. most of the people here hate Russia cuz of historical issues and that Government will go home if we will be sanctioned by EU like or other issues for us. Anyway.Aur is an isolated party and it will dissapear in 2028 like evey other nationalist party here which appear once 10 years

[@ionbrad6753]

I thought so, too. However, there were some weird facts. While protesting very noisy thru Bucharest, they happened to walk in front of the Russian Embassy. Total silence! No more yelling, no condemnations of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact! Then the war in Ukraine started. In this respect, AUR aligned their position .. if not to Putin, to Orban at least (true, Ukraine inherited from USSR some 1940 occupied Romanian lands and plays the innocent, while gradually reducing the minority rights).

[@hocusgamecube24]

The fact that Austria unjustifiably opposes our accession to the Schengen area will have the greatest influence on the increase in the number of voters of AUR supporters. This injustice towards Romania will have a devastating effect in the long term, and it seems that the EU will not be able to prevent this injustice, which makes it weak and divided. And so Romania, from a majority pro-European country, will become an anti-European country, fed up with all the sacrifices made and the lack of results it deserves.

[@ionbrad6753]

1) There is no injustice for Romania. Being a member of a club is not a ”right”. The freedom of association presumes I can freely associate with you, or I can freely choose not being your associate. 2) Begging for imaginary ”rights” is disgusting. You think we are good? Good. Let them beg us join us in some Schengen. Or maybe we are not that good? 3) Schengen and E.U. are different entities (partially overlapping, but nonetheless different).

[@dragos550]

​@@ionbrad6753f**k EU opressive project 😂😂😂

[@rob.ale90]

@@ionbrad6753 schengen is EU and being in schengen is an obligation "Of the 27 EU member states, 23 participate in the Schengen Area. Of the four EU members that are not part of the Schengen Area, three-Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania-are legally obligated to join the area in the future;"

[@ionbrad6753]

@@rob.ale90 Aham. And ... which law obliges these states to join? : )

[@rob.ale90]

@@ionbrad6753 I'll let you deal with finding it, i trust you

[@e.r.robert1062]

I am a fun of your show and I am a Romanian, and I can tell you that we are not on the path to far right

[@didierverschatse6422]

yr committing a logical fallacy though: "being Romanian" doesn't necessarily make you an authority on establishing whether RO is on a path to the "far right" (or not)

[@e.r.robert1062]

Yeah but AUR is dumb anyway, who evens votes them? Ah yeah..

[@unuldintrevoi3350]

Let's all just hope that AUR will win the election. AUR is rusophobic, not pro-russian. They don't like much neither the West or the East. They like the Romanian nation. The party has a politic similar with PiS in Poland and a lider which tries to imitate V. Orban...

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

😂😂

[@bbogddann]

Yes, so rusophobic that George Simion met with the FSB...

[@sergenuyar6635]

Asta e adevărul. Ei sunt chiar aliați foarte apropriați al PiS-ului. Încearcă doar să-i convingi pe toți retardații wokeiști super-gayropeniști.

[@thewatermelon9227]

"They don't like much neither the West or the East", Iliescu was thinkig the same, where that led us? Oh yeah, to the biggest crisis this country has ever seen

[@unuldintrevoi3350]

@@thewatermelon9227 Iliescu was russian agent, he liked Moskva a lot

[@SreenathPillaiPrakash]

I am from France and I wanted to order the PR Kit. The postage is so bloody expensive at 44£. Unfortunately it is as expensive as the order itself….

[@nistb2123]

Good analisys, John Smith!

[@ecoandrei328]

This will only get worse for us. Macar suntem si noi pe TLDR. Cheers

[@julianmarco4185]

I want to clarify something: AUR was formed out of the never ending dismissal of the politicians and the giant parties to take actions or even an opinion on problems in society both internal and external. This party jumps on every problem in society that career politicians avoid like the plague because they are too afraid to bring up. 1) The Hungarian minority have been continuously led by their politicians to isolate themselves more and more from their country. For example, the politicians of the Hungarian Minority region don't encourage their community to learn Romanian, just so they can stay isolated and not be integrated. Meanwhile in Hungary, the Romanian Minority have to learn Hungarian as Mandatory. So when he says he respects Hungary, he wants to be as authoritarian over the Hungarian Minority as Orban is on the Romanian minority. 2) Ukraine. Early on Zelenski in an attempt to forcefully integrate all the minorities in Ukraine, forbid the Romanian minority on the boarder with Romania to not be able to learn Romanian. No such thing was enforced on minorities in Romania. Lastly when, Romania accepted to help Ukraine, they started to sell their grain from Ukraine to Romanian companies and became a competitor to Romanian producers and were threatening their businesses. Basically, each time more cooler minds in Romania don't call out these problems, they keep giving ammunition to this howling extremist.

[@szabolcstanko6016]

Idk what you heard but Hungarians in Romania have to learn romanian. The Evaluarea Națională (a test at the end of 8th grade that decides in what shcool will the student continue his studies) an Bacalaureat (test at the end of 12th grade) has romanian language and literature as one of the test subject for hungarians too. The only difference between the romanians and hungarians is that the hungarian students have hungarian language and literature as a plus test and math, history etc. are in hungarian. The tests are the same they are just translated. In the local political representation such as city council the only time when hungarian can be used as the languege of the meeting if more than 50% of the representatives are hungarian and they specifically require it. But every decision made every plan and the report have to be in romanian at the end of the day So i would say that the hungarians in Romania (6.1%) have the same duties and privileges as the romanians in Hungary (0,3%)

[@Un_pelican_pe_varf_de_munte]

@@szabolcstanko6016you are less than 6,1% bec now you are less than 1 mil. in Romania 2023 so hoh hoh

[@kiton1890]

Thank you from Odesa

[@ianbangal2466]

Dear TLDR, what are you talking about? Not sure whether you are in this Univers, Galaxy, planet !? Since when is Romania an ally to Putin ? Since when Romania has a Hungarian majority ? What? Since when AUR is a political force in Ro? What?

[@AnyOtherNamePlease]

The term 'far right' is used far too liberally these days. Comparing these parties and politics to past parties and politics, just goes to show how far the Overton window has shifted.

[@nntflow7058]

Not really. We categorized political party into 5 spectrum: Far Left, Center-Left, Centrist, Center-Right, Far Right. There are many political party in European countries that are far-left, it's just that most of them are not in the spotlight these days. Secondly, this particular party is a Far-right party, there's not much centrism in their policies. Factions of their party hold Neo-Legionarism views.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@nntflow7058 The only problem is that AUR is not really far-right. They are socially conservative, just as much as the social democrats are (Romanian left is different than European left, in the sense that it is economically left-wing, but socially conservative) and economically left-wing. The only thing that came close to far-right in Romania (albeit even that one is debatable) was the former PRM (Partidul Romania Mare or Greater Romanian Party). And the reason why I say debatable is because of the same characterization... socially conservative yet economically left-wing. I disagree with AUR's intention to cut aid to Ukraine, but I do agree with several points they make, such as reducing the state bureaucracy, cutting taxes, combating neo-marxism, eliminating the influences of nefarious left-wing NGOs, etc.

[@AnyOtherNamePlease]

@nntflow7058 These 'categories' are too simplistic and can group very different - and sometimes opposing - ideologies together. A more objective news channel would distinguish these differences instead of including everyone from Mosley, Mussolini and Hitler to these modern politicians. There are significant differences. And, the AUR have denied any connection with Neo-Legioonarism.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

@@alexpokrandt4378 AUR doesn't have a racist platform though, nor is it xenophobic. There are members of various ethnicities there, including Hungarians and Gypsies. As for AUR lying about its economic policy, that will remain to be seen what they do if they get into power. So far, I am voting for them. The Democrats are socialists though in the sense that they advocate for more regulations, more and higher taxes for businesses and labor, expanding state bureaucracy at the expense of the individual, etc. Democrat party is united with the corporations against the Americans. They are the true fascists.

[@nntflow7058]

@@AnyOtherNamePlease Also, the Neo-Legioonarism is not the sole reason to why they got labelled far-right. Even if they denied it, all the other stance the believed in would make them far-right.

[@user-rr7zp4bq3i]

Hey Romanian here I like to say that what you said was pretty acurate but AUR has no chance to form a goverment . PSD (the bigest and most corrupt party in Romania politiscs) has always had the Older people 60+ support . The older adults 40-60 are more likely to vote with AUR or PNL(the second biggest party and the oldest in romania history that still exist even in this days) And the 18-40 years old dont have a pattern some prefer USR others PNL others AUR.

[@Kalimdor199Menegroth]

Maybe not, but they have the chance to be come the 2nd biggest party. Right now PNL and AUR are at about the same percentage 18-22% each. PSD will need a coalition partner or more to form a government in the next elections and I am not sure that PNL will like to go ahead for more years in a unity government with PSD. Just as in 2012-2013, the USL proved to be an electoral disaster for PNL which barely recovered at the end of the 2010s.

[@mariuscatalin5982]

​@@Kalimdor199Menegroththis is worse than usl considering many youngsters saw what PSD did This is worse Now everyone knows that PNL are turncoats

[@cristibrad6742]

president Klaus Iohanis will be the first to make an alliance with AUR and drag PNL if he would be named PM.

[@maxdon2001]

Great video!

[@lkl3210]

The first thing that came to mind after watching this was that old beauty and the beast song and it's kinda scary how well these lyrics fit " Tale as old as time. True as it can be. Barely even friends. Then somebody bends. Unexpectedly Just a little change"

[@ondrejmarek1980]

this left right scale to explain politics is less and less helpful - the stances are multidimensional and this is causing misalignment - people voting for parties that are actually not closest to their own priorities; the two-dimensional political compass is a step in the right direction but only very small, we need to go way bigger

[@mab9614]

If that does happen, then similar to Slovakia, Romania has done their part before a cabinet shuffle.

[@bogdannazare755]

(Romanian here) You should try putting the names of politicians through some text to speech program to learn that country's correct pronunciation before recording the video (Google Translate is also decent). When you pronounced Mircea Geoană as "Myrsia Jowannah" I had no idea of who you were talking about until I looked at the picture of him.

[@Yggdrasel]

We in the Netherlands just had elections yesterday and the exitpolls right now show that PVV the party of Geert Wilders is the biggest with 37 seats of the 150, followed by the greenleft/pvda with 25 votes and VVD with 24, with the new party Nieuw sociaal contract (NSC) with 20 votes. this is going to be a VERY right wing cabinet if it can be formed.

[@Vaati1992]

It's so fascinating what you describe as "moderation" of positions: it really is just right-wing populists recognizing a fellow right-wing populist as a useful ally against EU mandates (Romania under AUR would basically become the replacement for PiS Poland) and support for the Israeli right-wing's projects is a classic move among right-wing anti-semites (and allows for AUR to be even more anti-Muslim). Anyway, I hope Romanians wake up to what AUR could become for them, and if they somehow become elected into government, that the EU will at the very least continue to hold up Romania's ascension to Schengen (as much as that's worth these days, sadly...). Rule of law and human rights must be protected in the EU especially.

[@genuscorvid]

The Western right wing (that is to say, the "Global North" of the EU, plus Canada, Australia, the USA) has a very large; possibly the most mainstream position, racist yet pro-Israel/non-antisemitic component. They consider jews, especially the Ashkenazi who are very highly represented among the western elite and intelligentsia (this is stated as a fact, not a conspiracy theory about how Jews rule the world, although this representation of no doubt contributes to how strong pro israel lobbying is) the best and brightest of Europeans. Isn't it schizophrenic to claim they are antisemitic but somehow pro Zionist? Why would this be, in your mind? Is it some sort of weird idea that if they back Israel's right wing settler colonialist government Jews will become more hated in the world and this will therefore give more ammunition to more pogroms?

[@FunAngelo2005]

As a romanian, i'm scared

[@cristibrad6742]

an election as important as never before seen since 2000 or Iliescu's first term. Both events romanians failed, only once in an important electoral cycle people voted better before 2000.

[@robiscatitirisca]

@TDLR 02:58 - correction, Klaus Iohannis was not a member of national liberal party. The NLP alias PNL on their platform promoted and helped him to the Office.

[@rob.ale90]

keep researching till you find it

[@robiscatitirisca]

@@rob.ale90 send me pls a link to his membership

[@infowarrior4326]

Most interesting thing that happened during entire this turmoil over ukraine, is when orban of hungary, after attack on north stream, said: hungary and serbia will every attack on energy infrastucture treat as declaration of war, we are not germany, we are serious countries :)

[@trahx1444]

I am Romanian and thoroughly follow what happens in our internal politics so I will add some details that will give everyone a broader of view of the situation. 1. The president of AUR, George Simion, was surprised as having relations with russian agents by the Ukrainian intelligence agencies. He also went straight to a pro russian politician from Romania after the elections from 2020 to discuss some matters privately. 2. One of the founders of AUR had contracts to reconstruct buildings în the Rrpublic of Moldova where the KGB functioned in the past. And their big raise on social platforms, mostly Facebook, was due to some shady financing. Hence they didn't appear overnight, their rise was planned way before. 3. The president allows everything that happens in terms of coruption, lies etc. He is bribed by his administration, which sometimes consisits of former members of the communist repressive intelligence agencies, with expensive holidays, gifts, other privileges and disguised bribes (none of his expenses were revealed in spite of numerous requests by journalists) 4. The governing coalition, at least the big players, are extatic at the thought of AUR growing in polls. That means that they can govern together without any problem and silence the opposition represented by USR (the Union Save Romania). The two parties said that they will never ever govern together and the president won with his promise of never letting that happen. Obviously it was all a big lie. 5. Remember the members of Trump administration recieving bribes to arrange meetings with other world leaders? The Biden adminstration is doing the same thing. Recently the Romanian PM went to Washington to discuss... What do you think? Hospitals, schools, infrastructurs, visas etc.? No, no, no and NO. THEY DISCUSSED ABOUT WEAPONS. Or should I entitle it: How to get away with everything by bribing left, right and center.

[@costinhalaicu2746]

I really doubt AUR will get to increase any more. There's a limit.

[@sebastianr1204]

Till elections something will happen in Romanian politics.

[@ionbrad6753]

Hopefully.

[@bogdantudosa6533]

7:13 The presidential elections are scheduled for nov. 2024. The current president changes 1 prime-minister per year, that's right, also Dragnea helped in that regard.

[@asul_ro168]

Te pup TLDR 😘

[@bogdanbratis5941]

This is never going to happen. Romania lives democracy, and we know how to protest!

[@Davdit]

Democracy has brought us nothing hahaha, why do we "love" it ?

[@adrianciocoiu5073]

The democracy gave you the right to have such an opinion. During the communism times you could not say the same, you could not have a different opinion without suffering consequences. Democracy gave you the freedom to think for yourself to work for yourself and also gave you the right to be "stupid", if you chose so.

[@bogdanbratis5941]

@@Davdit Go and live in Russia, I'm sure you'll enjoy it :)

[@radu4281]

Pai și dacă oamenii votează aur? O sa protestezi împotriva democrației?

[@bogdanbratis5941]

@@radu4281 Da, protestez, pentru ca de asta traiesc intr-o democratie.

[@dm9078]

The graph showed AUR at about 20% where it seems to have plateaued. I don’t know how Romanian elections are decided but 20% hardly seems enough to form a government. Are there enough conservative parties in Romania to form a coalition government?

[@amethyst2823]

No. All major parties declared they won't make an alliance with them.

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

Those 20% are also to high, more than 15% this crap party will not have

[@hellothere2167]

​@@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr AUR might get 20% but for the EU parliament where it really does not matter.