Corneliu Vadim Tudor

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Tudor during the 2014 election campaign

Corneliu Vadim Tudor (born November 28, 1949 in Bucharest ; † September 14, 2015 there ) was a Romanian politician . Tudor was chairman of the ultra nationalist Partidul România Mare (German Greater Romania Party ) until July 2013 .

Life

During the Ceaușescu era , Tudor was a journalist and poet loyal to the regime and glorified the dictatorship in his poems . Since the fall and execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the formal abolition of the Romanian Communist Party , he represented his national communist sentiments in the Partidul România Mare.

In the presidential elections in November 2000, he received more than a third of the vote, but lost to Ion Iliescu from the PSD . The Greater Romania Party emerged from the elections as the second strongest force in parliament. In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , however, she lost massive votes and missed re-entry into parliament. A year later in the presidential election , Tudor had to be content with just under 6% of the vote.

Tudor's political goals were seen as anti-democratic and extremist . They were characterized by anti-Semitism , a public glorification of the former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, criticism of Western institutions such as NATO and the EU and the demand for the disenfranchisement of the minorities living in the country (especially the Hungarians ). He has represented these goals since his time as editor of the communist-nationalist magazine Săptămâna , which was considered the vulgar mouthpiece of the Securitate secret service during the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime and regularly attacked dissidents and personalities in exile.

Tudor's extreme political statements repeatedly targeted Roma , Jews and Hungarians, but also uncomfortable journalists, former dissidents and exiled personalities whom he threatened with, for example, being sent to labor camps. At the beginning of 2004, Tudor publicly announced its change from an anti-Semite to a philosemite and hired Israeli image consultants as campaign manager.

On September 14, 2015, it was announced that Tudor had died as a result of a heart attack in the Bucharest Military Hospital. His grave is in the Ghencea Cemetery in Bucharest.

EU parliamentarians

Tudor was a member of the European Parliament between 2009 and 2014 . He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and the Delegation for Relations with Switzerland and Norway, the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee. He was a deputy in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in the delegation in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

additional

In December 2004, the order holder Elie Wiesel returned the Steaua României , one of the highest orders in Romania, after President Ion Iliescu had also awarded Tudor the Steaua României. Wiesel said that he wanted to distance himself from Tudor and the equally excellent Gheorghe Buzatu .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keno Verseck : Street dogs in Romania: To the indignation of animal lovers. spiegel.de, September 14, 2013, accessed on September 14, 2013 .
  2. ↑ http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Jurnal/9735002647/ .
  3. ↑ Corneliu Vadim Tudor a murit in Spitalul Militar din Capitala. Politicianul ar fi suferit un infarct. Retrieved September 14, 2015 .
  4. ^ Website of the European Parliament
  5. ↑ WorldPress.org, Controversial Moves by Romanian President Before Exit , December 23, 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Tudor, Corneliu Vadim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 2015
Place of death Bucharest