AUR protests against the number of signatures required to participate in the European Parliament elections: 200,000

The extremist AUR party protests in a statement issued together with other parties against the “huge number of signatures required for registration in the elections”. The party led by George Simion shows that “if we want to live in a democracy, then the number of 200,000 signatures to be able to run in the elections must be reduced”.

AUR points out that Romania is among the European countries with the highest number of signatures required to be able to run in the elections and says that this regulation prevents small parties and independent candidates from entering the electoral race.

AUR also criticizes the decision to merge the local elections with the European parliamentary elections and points out that “Romania is facing the most serious constitutional slippage in the last 34 years. The untimely merging of local and European parliamentary elections by emergency ordinance represents a serious violation of the constitutional order by the PSD-PNL governing coalition. It’s been almost three weeks since the state institutions that were supposed to defend the Constitution, to defend the rights of Romanians, chose to remain silent and have no reaction regarding this abuse of power practiced by PSD and PNL”.

“The serious and unauthorized modification of the electoral legislation, by affecting electoral rights, is specific to a dictatorial regime that seeks by all means to prevent free and fair elections”, according to the AUR.

“In the face of this abuse that defies any constitutional democratic demands, twenty-four conservative, Christian-democratic and sovereignist parties from Romania, together with important members of civil society, gathered in Bucharest, on March 27, 2024, with the occasion of the day of the Union of Bessarabia with the Motherland, to publicly condemn the process of capturing the Romanian State by the PSD-PNL leaderships in total contempt of the Constitution and citizens’ rights”, according to the quoted statement.