AUR Senator Claudiu Târziu deliberately chooses topics in line with Hungarian far-right politicians while serving the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Romanian Intelligence Service Director Eduard Hellvig wrote on social media on Monday.
Târziu, one of the leaders of the far-right AUR, is “cynically manipulating sensitive issues that he knows is a fantasy”, Hellvig wrote on X.
On 24 January, the Day of Unification of the Romanian Principalities, Târziu made a speech, discussing reintegrating the Romanian state within its natural borders. “We will not be truly sovereign until we reintegrate the Romanian state within its natural borders, with Bessarabia, Northern Bucovina, southern Bessarabia, Herţa county, Transcarpathia”, he said, referring to territories that belonged to Romania, and currently part of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova.
Hellvig sees a connection between Târziu’s statement and László Torocskai’s declaration that Hungary should reclaim territories from Ukraine if it loses the war with Russia.
The annexation of Ukrainian territories is a recurrent theme among the extreme right in Romania.
In November 2023, the Senate rejected a bill proposed by Diana Şoşoaşa, leader of an extremist pro-Russian party, which advocated for annexing territories from Ukraine and the union with the Republic of Moldova.
(Cătălina Mihai | Euractiv.ro)
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