Claudiu Târziu
Romanian politician
Claudiu Richard Târziu (born 20 February 1973) is a Romanian right-wing politician and journalist. Together with George Simion, he was the co-president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a political party in Romania that gained popularity after its unexpected high score in the 2020 Romanian legislative election, until 27 March 2022, when Simion was elected as the party's sole president. Târziu remained a member of the party, being the president of its National Leadership Council (CNC), until his departure from AUR on 9 April 2025. On 7 May that year, he became the president of the newly-founded Conservative Action (ACT) party.
Biography
Claudiu Târziu was born on 20 February 1973 in Bacău, Romania. He graduated from the Anghel Saligny Lyceum of Bacău in 1991 and studied from 1994 to 1999 at the Faculty of Law of the Mihai Eminescu University of Iași. From 2002 to 2007, Târziu studied at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration of Bucharest.
According to his curriculum vitae, he is since April 2012 the marketing director of SC Cosânzeana Edit Pres SRL and since November 2013 the director of the publishing house Rost. The latter was presented as "a magazine for the national and Christian resurrection", and figures of the Iron Guard, a former fascist party of Romania, were promoted on its pages. His CV also says that he has been an investigative journalist, a "special reporter", an editor-in-chief and a publishing house director.
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