{"id":8521,"date":"2026-01-22T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:00:25","slug":"romanias-isolationist-party-aur-confirms-robust-40-support-in-latest-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8521","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s isolationist party AUR confirms robust 40% support in latest poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), headed by isolationist leader George Simion, leads authoritatively in terms of voters&#8217; preference, according to a survey conducted by INSCOP Research and published on January 21. The parties in the ruling coalition, as a whole, still have a slight advantage.<\/p>\n<p>AUR leads with 40.9% of the voters who expressed firm commitment to attend the ballot, versus 48.3% combined support enjoyed by the four parties in the ruling coalition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/politic-intern\/barometrul-inscop-intentia-de-vot-la-alegerile-parlamentare-aur-pe-primul-loc-cu-un-scor-de-40-9-urmat-la-mare-distanta-de-psd-si-de-pnl-1922401521232026011422317313?mc_cid=1c0eefc5b3&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">News.ro<\/a> reported. Including the satellite parties with similar political orientation (SOS Romania and POT), the isolationist parties hold a combined 45.8% stake.<\/p>\n<p>In the ruling coalition, Social Democrats (PSD, 18.2%) hold the largest stake but not the majority, followed by Liberals (PNL, 13.5%) and reformist USR (11.7%). Hungarian party UDMR is rated at 4.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the scores of all parties have not changed dramatically since April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This shows that the parties are not winning, but they are not losing significantly either, despite a period marked by tensions caused by developments in key areas such as the economy\/prices, fiscal policy\/taxes, foreign policy, justice or security\/war risks. For now, we are in a rigid political status quo that discourages [&#8230;] major political crises,&#8221; explained Remus \u015etefureac, director of INSCOP Research.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/George Calin)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), headed by isolationist leader George Simion, leads authoritatively in terms of voters&#8217; preference, according to a survey conducted by INSCOP Research and published on January 21. The parties in the ruling coalition, as a whole, still have a slight advantage. AUR leads with 40.9% of the voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}