Bad Puns: Romania Edition

Quoted Romania Forms New Government as AUR Gains Popularity by Péter Fazekas (The Jamestown Foundation) The Niculescu cabinet marks the latest twist in a major political crisis that left Romania without government for nearly six months. On May 5, the PSD—which was part of a pro-EU coalition with the center-right National Liberal Party (PNL), the liberal Save Romania Union (USR), and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR)—joined forces with the main opposition party, the nationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), to topple the government of PNL-affiliated then-prime minister, Ilie Bolojan. The Jamestown Foundation published an article by Peter Fazekas on the formation of a new minority government in Romania. In discussing the various parties, Mr. Fazekas explained that the largest opposition party is the AUR party. I am not a Romanian elections expert by any means, but I think the AUR party will need to form an alliance with the Yay or Paru parties to move…