The New Right

The New Right is an ultranationalist, far-right organization activating in Romania and Moldova. The party claims to be the successor to the nationalist Iron Guard with the aesthetics and ideology being directly influenced by the fascist movement and its leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.

The group’s beliefs include militant ultranationalism and strong Orthodox Christian religious convictions. Their website indicates opposition to sexual minorities, Roma, abortion, communism, globalization, the European Union, NATO, religious groups other than the Eastern Orthodox Church, race-mixing, territorial autonomy for Romania’s ethnic Hungarian minority, and immoderate cultural import (including some American culture, manele music, and the celebration of Valentine’s Day).