Corneliu Vadim Tudor is leader of the Greater Romania Party

Greater Romania Party

The Greater Romania Party is a Romanian radical right-wing, ultra-nationalist political party, led by Corneliu Vadim Tudor. The party is sometimes referred to in English as the Great Romania Party....

 ('Partidul România Mare'), writer, journalist and a Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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. He was a Romanian Senator from 1992 to 2008.

A controversial, essentially populist

Populism

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, political figure, he is known for his strongly nationalist

Nationalism

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 and patriotic views, the theatrics of which often accompany his rhetoric, and his reliance on the denunications of political opponents (so far, a tactic which several civil lawsuits have ruled slanderous).