Romania’s ultranationalist AUR party has few foreign role models — it prefers to glorify local historical figures including Vlad the Impaler, the gruesome medieval ruler who inspired the novel Dracula.
But one notable exception is the former US president and current Republican frontrunner. An AUR campaign centre in Bucharest is draped in a huge portrait of Donald Trump, with the caption: “Republicans for freedom.”
Both characters have become a source of inspiration for the upstart far-right party, which rose quickly from a fringe anti-vaccination group in the Covid-19 pandemic to become the main opposition force in Romania ahead of local and EU elections on Sunday, when polls indicate it could scoop up 20 per cent of the votes.
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