Romania’s electoral body has disqualified another politician, Diana Șoșoacă, from the presidential election re-run.
In doing so on March 15, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) cited her public rhetoric — including opposition to Romania’s European Union and NATO membership — as incompatible with the constitutional duties of the presidency.
Șoșoacă is an MEP for the right-wing Eurosceptic SOS Romania Party — and unaligned in the European Parliament.
She has more than 400,000 followers on Facebook and more than 523,000 on TikTok.
Șoșoacă has stated she was against EU membership for her country and also opposed its NATO membership while appearing pro-Russia.
She has previously visited the Russian Embassy in Bucharest to deliver messages of peace on behalf of Romanians who “do not wish to be dragged into war by a treacherous political class”.
According to the CEB, this meant she was unfit to run for president.
On March 13, she filed her candidacy for the elections on May 4, promising to “fight the system”, wearing boxing gloves to underscore the point.
But, two days later, she was rejected.
Șoșoacă had already been disqualified from the November 2024 presidential election by the electoral commission, with the Constitutional Court later citing statements that contradicted “democratic values,” without giving specifics
“Romania is no longer a democracy, we are living in a globalist dictatorship,” she said on X on March 15.
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THE REAL PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA: DIANA IOVANOVICI-ŞOŞOACĂ, THE ONLY LIDER OF NATIONALISTS!
I have just been banned for the 2nd time to run for the Romanian presidencial elections.Romania is no longer a democracy, we are living in a globalist dictatorship. pic.twitter.com/MXiuhunUQe— Diana Iovanovici-Șoșoacă (@SosoacaDiana) March 15, 2025
The electoral office did validate the AUR party leader George Simion. He became a close ally of initial frontrunner Călin Georgescu, who has recently also banned.
Initially, he was targeted for alleged close ties to Russia but no conclusive proof was ever provided.
Ultimately, Georgescu’s candidacy was rejected by the BEC for reasons it said related to the source of his campaign finances.
On Facebook on March 16, Șoșoacă wrote an open letter to US President Donald Trump and one to Russian President Vladimir Putin about her candidacy refusal.
“The rejection of my candidacy for the Romanian presidential elections for the second time proves that the democratic system has been destroyed and that the elections have already been rigged,” she wrote to Trump.
“Banning my candidacy without any legal basis, in blatant violation of the country’s Constitution, is an unprecedented act in the civilised world and in a democratic country, relegating Romania to ‘junk’ status in terms of its political system.”
She urged him “not to recognise the elections in Romania”, saying “they have been compromised” by her exclusion. She called that a clear sign that the globalist system in Romania feared her sovereignist candidacy and “is rigging the elections to install a globalist-controlled puppet through dictatorial means”.
To Putin, she stressed that she was standing for peace and that her candidacy was “illegally and unconstitutionally rejected”.
“As a disqualified presidential candidate who has consistently advocated for Romania to maintain good relations with the Russian Federation and avoid entanglement in the Ukraine conflict, I must warn that the danger is far from over — once again, the European Union is pushing us toward war,” she said.
“As you can see, while the EU accuses Russia of dictatorship, the real dictatorship is in Romania.”
“I love my people and my country, just as you love yours and seek the best for Russia. That is why I ask that, when you see the misguided decisions of Romania’s current leadership — or those of its future illegitimate president, installed through already rigged elections — you recognise that these decisions do not reflect the will of the Romanian people, who desire peace.”
She urged Putin “to disregard hostile actions taken by Romania’s illegitimate leadership under the EU’s control, as they do not represent the true will of our nation”.
Șoșoacă finished her letter by saying she stood “in defence of Romanians in the Republic of Moldova, who are suffering under the [US philanthropist George] Soros-backed dictatorship of [Moldovan President] Maia Sandu”.
She called for the Romanian withdrawal from the EU and, in her first contribution to the plenary of the European Parliament, she called for neutrality for Romania in the Ukrainian war.
“The only party that wanted to talk about peace, amazingly, was the Russian Federation,” she claimed at the time.
In July 2024, she conducted her first-ever live broadcast from the European Parliament plenary via Facebook, as members voted for the new president of the European legislature. On her ballot, she wrote that she was against Ukraine and LGBT rights.
“The European Parliament represents the interests of the great powers and multinational consortia”, Șoșoacă said. “We are heading towards a dictatorship that did not exist even in the USSR,” and added: “Democracy is mimicked in the EU.”
She caused disturbance in the EP, wearing a folk costume and targeting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, waving around religious imagery.
“Just like in the Romanian parliament, this is where the satans meet. It’s my opinion and I say it clearly. As in the Romanian Parliament, I will bring a priest to consecrate the offices and wherever I can, it is my right to religion, to express my religious faith. I brought the icon of Saint Paraschieva and immediately everyone’s attitude changed,” she said.
She also claimed that Ukraine hade been taken over by the US and called for Romania to leave NATO.
This earned her a penalty in October last year from EP President Roberta Metsola.
WATCH: Romanian hard-Right MEP @SosoacaDiana was kicked out of the European Parliament chamber yesterday for accusing @vonderleyen of ‘killing people'. pic.twitter.com/ph25JSQTEB
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) July 19, 2024
