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Not long after sparking outrage inside and outside the country by barring right-wing frontrunner Calin Georgescu from running in May's presidential election, Romania has barred another populist from the contest, attributing the decision to the candidate's supposedly unacceptable policy stances and "making declarations "contrary to democratic values."
Romania's electoral commission on Saturday announced that Diana Sosoaca would be banned from competing for the country's presidency. That news is troubling enough on its face, but the Central Election Bureau's rationale makes the development all the more chilling: Sosoaca is supposedly unfit for office because she has publicly voiced opposition to Romania's memberships in the European Union and NATO.
The court said Sosoaca's stances are disqualifying because EU and NATO memberships are explicitly acknowledged in Romania's constitution. However, constitutions can be changed via legal processes, and any rational champion of democratic principles should think political candidates should be free to advocate for changes.
Like Georgescu, Sosoaca has also been condemned for advocating for friendly relations with Russia. Last fall, she was banned from the November ballot on similar grounds. "I am proof that we do not live in a democracy," the morbidly obese Sosoaca said on Facebook this weekend as she promised to appeal the latest decision against her.
A 49-year-old European MP and leader of the nationalist S.O.S. Romania Party, Sosoaca has struck Trump-like tones in her oratory. When she filed her candidacy, she told supporters she was on a mission to "make Europe and Romania great again." Following the election commission's ruling, she posted a public letter to Trump, declaring that "the democratic system has been destroyed and the elections have already been rigged."
On a positive note, another right-wing candidate managed to survive the election bureau gauntlet: George Simion, who leads the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), will appear on the May 4 ballot -- for now, at least. The 38-year-old is being investigated for having allegedly incited violence after Georgescu was banned from the race. Like other nationalist party's in Europe, Simion's AUR party has been surging.