What is it about?
This paper uses national electoral data, media analysis, and in-depth interviews with young, educated people to explore the spatial distribution of AUR support, the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has assisted the party's rise to prominence, and attitudes amongst university students to both the style and content of their politics.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because it presents how nationalist AUR party leaders in Romania use a populist narratives via social media in a deliberately opportunistic, controversial, and spectacular manner.
Perspectives
The paper concludes that the AUR offer a potent mix of old nationalism, religious faith, traditional family values and new ideological elements, such as environmentalism, anti-globalization, and anti-government critique to create a self-consciously 'alternative' political rhetoric.
Dr Remus Cretan
west university of Timisoara
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This page is a summary of: Pandemic populism: COVID-19 and the rise of the Nationalist AUR party in Romania, Geographica Pannonica, January 2021, Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES),
DOI: 10.5937/gp25-33782.
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