Is AUR left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation AUR scores +02 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +09. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is AUR authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, AUR scores +05. Parliamentary; the 2024 presidential election was annulled by the constitutional court over foreign interference findings.

Atlas / Organisations / AUR

AUR

Alliance for the Union of Romanians · 2019– · Romania · Radical Right Populist · Electoral party · coding confidence low

+02ECmarket

+09CUtraditional

+05AUmonist

+04SCcentral

+07IDascriptive

00CHbalanced

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Family, nation, faith and freedom; opposition to migration, LGBT recognition and pandemic measures; union with Moldova.

Economic model

Higher pensions and agricultural support alongside lower taxes; economically inconsistent by design.

Organisation of powers

Parliamentary; the 2024 presidential election was annulled by the constitutional court over foreign interference findings.

Reading note

Recent and unstable; low confidence.

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The evidence for every score

All six cells are sourced. A rationale explains what the score is measuring and each artefact is something a third party can check without taking anyone's word for it.

EC · Economic organisation · scored +02

Coded +2: higher pensions and agricultural support alongside lower taxes.

Programme textThe programme combines transfer increases with tax reduction without a stated fiscal path.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +09

Coded +9: family, faith and nation as the party's own four-word programme.

Programme textCampaigned against pandemic measures and against legal recognition of same-sex partnerships.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +05

Coded +5 with low confidence.

Documented act or statuteThe 2024 presidential election was annulled by the constitutional court over declassified interference findings, and the leading candidate barred from the rerun.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +04

Coded +4: a unitary state with union with Moldova as a stated aim.

Programme textThe programme names unification as a national objective.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +07

Coded +7: an ethnic-national conception including union with Moldova.

Programme textProgramme commits to unification with Moldova on ethnic-national grounds.

CH · Method and tempo · scored 00

Coded at zero: parliamentary, in an election annulled for foreign interference.

Documented act or statuteThe 2024 presidential first round was annulled by the constitutional court on declassified evidence.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

Romania

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). AUR. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/aur/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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