Vlad Gheorghe, an independent candidate for the DREPT party and former popular MEP, said that while no Romanian politician “in their right mind would glorify the Nazi-aligned government”, far-right parties such as SOS România and AUR are holding on to controversial historical issues. debates to provide 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 that comes along and says another group is responsible for their problems, they start to believe him,” he said. he told POLITICO.

Today, Șoșoacă – who received around 10 percent of the vote in the presidential race – is running in the legislative elections, to return to an institution she left just a few months ago to join the European Parliament .

The move follows calls from anti-Semitism monitoring groups to suspend his immunity in the European Parliament following his fascist outburst, and a previous seven-day suspension of the Brussels institution.

Gheorghe also filed a complaint with the Constitutional Court over his recent anti-Semitic remarks and also included another SOS România MEP, former television personality Luis-Vicențiu Lazarus.

“The attorney general announced that he had opened a preliminary investigation after I filed the complaint, but that he will only be able to continue the investigation if his parliamentary immunity is lifted,” he said.

If scandals and stories became a fixture in Romanian politics rather than an incident, the country would certainly attract more international attention – for all the wrong reasons.