Romania’s far-right Corneliu Vadim Tudor dies at 65
Publicat de Cosmin Meca, 15 septembrie 2015, 16:00 / actualizat: 30 ianuarie 2021, 10:58
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a former leader of Romania’s far-right Greater Romania party, has died in the capital Bucharest on Monday. He was 65. Tudor died hours after being admitted to the Military Emergency Hospital for a lung desease. However, he died following a heart failure. Tudor began his career as a writer and poet glorifying Romania’s former Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu. After the 1989 revolution, he joined the Romanian Parliament as leader of the far-right Greater Romania party before becoming a lawmaker in the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. Vadim Tudor wrote insulting articles against Hungarians, Jews, Roma and liberal-minded Romanians.
