During the reign of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, Tudor was energetic in his praise (in prose and poetry) of the dictator. Changing from a communist to an ultra-nationalist after Ceauşescu's fall and execution in 1989, Tudor founded the ultra-nationalist weekly România Mare ("Greater Romania") and, in 1991, the Greater Romania Party, whose platform Time magazine described as "a crude mixture of anti-Semitism, racism and nostalgia for the good old days of communism." To this, one ought to add ultra-nationalism, anti-Magyarism, and anti-gypsyism. Oddly, for an ultra-nationalist, Tudor supports Romania's entry into the European Union and wishes to remain in NATO. Al-Ahram has called him the "Jean-Marie Le Pen of the Carpathians,"[1].
In 1999, Dan Corneliu Hudici, a former reporter at România Mare, claimed there was a secret "blacklist" of dozens of politicians (including then-president Emil Constantinescu), journalists, and businessmen to be arrested if Tudor's party came to power.
In the first round of the Romanian presidential elections on November 26,2000, Tudor finshed second with 28% of the vote. (Four years earlier, he had com in fifth.) However, nearly all other parties backed Ion Iliescu in the December 11 runoff, and Tudor only picked up five additional percentage points, while Iliescu surged from 36% to 67%.
România Mare has been sued for libel with stunning frequency, often for Tudor's own writings (which he usually - if not always - signs under a pseudonym).
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"This country [Romania] could only be governed through the mouth of a machine gun," 1998, quoted by CNN, December 9, 2000.