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New Right Noua Dreaptă | |
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| Abbreviation | ND |
| Leader | Constantin Nechita |
| Founded | 2000 (2000) (asNGO) 2015 (2015) (asparty) |
| Headquarters | Bucharest |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-right[17][18] |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox Church |
| National affiliation | National Identity Bloc in Europe |
| European affiliation | Alliance for Peace and Freedom |
| International affiliation | World National-Conservative Movement (2015) |
| Colours | Green White |
| Slogan | Orthodoxy and Nationalism[19] |
| Senate | 0 / 136 |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 330 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 33 |
| Mayors | 0 / 3,176 |
| County Councilors | 0 / 1,340 |
| Local Council Councilors | 0 / 39,900 |
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Noua Dreaptă (English:The New Right) is anultranationalist,far-right organization inRomania andMoldova, founded in 2000. The party claims to be the successor to the far-rightIron Guard, with its aesthetics and ideology being directly influenced by the fascist movement and its leader,Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.[20]
Proclaiming itself as "radical, militant, nationalist and Christian Orthodox",Noua Dreaptă supports amerger of Romania and Moldova.[21]
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The group's beliefs include militantultranationalism and strongOrthodox Christian religious convictions. Noua Dreaptă's website[22] indicates opposition to:sexual minorities,Roma,abortion,communism,globalization, theEuropean Union,NATO, religious groups other than theEastern Orthodox Church, race-mixing, territorial autonomy for Romania's ethnicHungarian minority and immoderate cultural import (including someAmerican culture,manele music, and the celebration ofValentine's Day andHalloween). They are against both Marxism and capitalism, following thethird positionist ideology.
The members ofNoua Dreaptărevere the leader of theIron Guard in the 1930s,Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.Noua Dreaptă members refer to him as "Căpitanul" ("The Captain"), which is what Codreanu's supporters called him during his lifetime.
Noua Dreaptă was part of the European National Front, an umbrella group of far-right nationalist organizations, many of which can be characterized asFascist. TheNoua Dreaptă web site includes a column of "links of interest" to numerous extreme nationalist organizations throughout Europe, including the following:
Noua Dreaptă is also reported[citation needed] to have had ties with the following political groups:
As of 30 May 2018, Noua Dreaptă is a member of theAlliance for Peace and Freedom. The AFP is a far-right andultranationalistEuropean political party that also includesForza Nuova,National Democratic Party of Germany,Kotleba – People's Party Our Slovakia andNational Democracy among others.[28]
Noua Dreaptă uses imagery associated withlegionarism, the ideology of the nationalist and anti-Semitic interwarIron Guard, which roughly paralleled theFascist andNazi movements in Italy and Germany, respectively. The group's symbol, for example — theCeltic cross (usually drawn on a green background) — is reminiscent of the insignia of the Iron Guard. Due to its imagery's uses and its methods, the party is sometimes described asneo-Nazi by news outlets.[29]
Noua Dreaptă has aligned itself with organizations elsewhere in Europe with stronglyanti-Semitic views,[30] although it has not focused its efforts against Romania's currently smallJewish community. Rather, the group has concentrated its rhetoric and efforts against theethnic Hungarians,Roma (Gypsies),sexual minorities[31] and minority religious faiths.[32]
Its anti-democratic and anti-constitutional views and statements made them a permanent target of surveillance by the Directorate for the Defense of the Constitution, a department of thedomestic intelligence service.[citation needed]
In May 2006, dozens ofNoua Dreaptă members were detained by police after protesting theGayFest pride parade in Bucharest.[33] Police also used tear gas to disperse counterprotesters led by individuals identified asNoua Dreaptă members.[citation needed]
On 15 March 2008, on the National Day of Hungary,Noua Dreaptă organized an anti-Hungarian rally in Cluj-Napoca — an action which, after group members attacked and beat an ethnic Hungarian celebrator, ledUDMR leaderBéla Markó to criticize Cluj's mayorEmil Boc for approving it. In addition, two ethnic Hungarian members of the Romanian Parliament demanded the banning ofNoua Dreaptă on the grounds that it continues Iron Guard's spirit.[34]
| Election | Chamber | Senate | Position | Aftermath | ||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| 2016 | did not compete | Extra-parliamentary opposition toPSD-ALDE government (2017–2019) | ||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition toPSD minority government (2019) | ||||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition toPNL minority government (2019–2020) | ||||||||
| 2020 | 3,551 | 0.06 | 0 / 329 | 4,345 | 0.07 | 0 / 136 | 29th | Extra-parliamentary opposition toPNL-USR PLUS-UDMR government (2020–2021) |
| Extra-parliamentary opposition toPSD-PNL-UDMR government (2021–2024) | ||||||||
| 2024 | did not compete | Extra-parliamentary opposition toPSD-PNL-UDMR government (2024–2025) | ||||||
| Extra-parliamentary opposition toPSD-PNL-USR-UDMR government (2025-present) | ||||||||
| Election | County Councilors (CJ) | Mayors | Local Councilors (CL) | Popular vote | % | Position | ||||||
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| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
| 2016 | — | — | 0 / 1,434 | — | — | 0 / 3,186 | — | — | 4 / 40,067 | — | — | N/A |
| 2020 | did not compete | 0 / 1,340 | 984 | 0.01 | 0 / 3,176 | 2,056 | 0.03 | 2 / 39,900 | — | — | 73rd | |
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