The marchers marched from the Palace of Parliament through the city center to the headquarters of the ruling parties, the National Liberal and the Social Democrat, as well as to the seat of government. They were “against obsequiousness and cowardice towards the European Union, against Brussels’ attitude towards Romania as a second-class country”. The demonstrators were accompanied by gendarmes; no incidents of conflict were recorded. Many protesters arrived in the capital by bus from other cities in the country.
AUR leader George Simion said it was probably the biggest protest in recent years. “We defend the children, the wealth of the country, we do not want to sell businesses to foreigners. We fight to stop these anti-national projects.” Otherwise, “Romania will be sold forever,” Simion stressed.
The Alliance for the Unification of Romanians is a nationalist opposition party in Romania. In the 2020 parliamentary elections, it won over 9% of the vote and finished fourth among the five parties that entered parliament.
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