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Romanians are heading to the polls for the next three weekends in a row, with all eyes on the far-right AUR party.

Why should I care?

Despite its colorful history of corruption scandals, Romania has long been considered a reliable NATO ally in Eastern Europe and a country that has largely played by EU rules in the region. That record sets it apart from other countries in the region such as Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria, which are continually sparking fears over rule of law and gravitation toward Russia.

That might now change.

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@solo I'm really sceptical of AUR winning the elections. AUR is just an instrument of PSD designed to repeat the scenario in the 2000 presidential election, when we had to choose between a former Communist Party leader and a former communist gone nationalist who said that the country can only be ruled with the machine gun and threatened to invade Hungary. Of course, due to the former's extended territorial apparatus, he won. Now the nazi doesn't have links to the Communist Party, but is just a Russian bootlicker. The real competition is between a reformist candidate and PSD and it's puppets.