Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) polls 2026: 22.4% average & trends in Romania

Key issues & ideology

AUR ideology is unionist nationalism with Orthodox-messianic colouring: Greater Romania, Moldovan reunification, the defence of church, family and the peasant against Brussels progressivism. It demands Romanian-first hiring, food sovereignty, the renationalisation of energy and forests, and resistance to EU migration quotas, green restoration laws and what it calls gender ideology.

Voters asking "who is Alliance for the Union of Romanians?" or "what does Alliance for the Union of Romanians stand for?" find the party classified here as eurosceptic, national conservatism, economic liberalism — positioning that explains both its ceiling near 22.4% and where further recovery must come from.

Pollster breakdown: how the 22.4% average is built

The table below shows the verified reading behind the headline (INSCOP — each row names its pollster so the source is fully transparent). Accredited houses tracked for Romania include INSCOP, CURS, Avangarde, Sociopol, CIRA, BCS — see Methodology for inclusion rules.

Ideology

AUR ideology is unionist nationalism with Orthodox-messianic colouring: Greater Romania, Moldovan reunification, the defence of church, family and the peasant against Brussels progressivism. It demands Romanian-first hiring, food sovereignty, the renationalisation of energy and forests, and resistance to EU migration quotas, green restoration laws and what it calls gender ideology. The party is the most pro-sovereigntist voice on Ukraine: opposing grain transit damage to farmers, military aid and the war narrative, which critics read as Kremlin-adjacent. Historically it rehabilitates interwar figures including Marshal Antonescu, drawing condemnation from Jewish organisations. Economically it mixes pension populism with flat-tax nostalgia and SME romanticism. The movement and the style — marches, monastery blessings, influencer deputies — scandalises Bucharest elites. Researchers classify AUR as nationalist radical right with irredentist and clerical traits unusual in the region.

Voter demographics

AUR voters are the young, the diaspora and the devout periphery: under-35 men radicalised on TikTok, Romanian workers in Italy, Spain, Britain and Germany voting at consulates, and small-town Orthodox families. The party dominates among vocational youth, truckers, construction workers abroad and first-time voters, and underperforms among Bucharest professionals, Hungarian ethnics (who back UDMR) and the elderly PSD/PNL clientele. Monks, priests and pilgrimage networks supply moral infrastructure; football ultras supply muscle. Women lag men substantially. Education predicts opposition: degrees vote Dan or Lasconi; practical schooling votes Simion. Turnout is AUR and the weapon — diaspora queues and youth mobilisation decide its ceiling — and also its volatility, since protest voters defect between cycles.