In Romania, the far right is hot on the heels of the social democrats after the legislative elections

A week after the surprise breakthrough of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu during the first round of the presidential election, a new clap of thunder rang out in the Romanian sky on Sunday. The Social Democratic Party of Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, which has governed almost without interruption since the fall of dictator Nicola Ceausescu in December 1989, certainly comes first in the legislative elections with 23% of the votes. But the three far-right groups which campaigned on calling into question support for Ukraine, as well as on the promise of restoring the “ Christian values », total more than 30% of the votes, three times the score recorded four years ago. “ This is the beginning of a new era where Romanians reclaim the right to decide their own destiny “, declared George Simion, the leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), which obtained 17.9% of the votes. Two other training courses…