Lidia Vadim-Tudor | |
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![]() Tudor in 2024 | |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 21 December 2024 | |
Constituency | Bucharest |
Personal details | |
Born | Bucharest,Romania | 3 July 1990
Political party | Alliance for the Union of Romanians |
Parent | Corneliu Vadim Tudor |
Occupation | Politician |
Lidia Vadim-Tudor (born 3 August 1990) is a Romanian politician who since 2024 has served a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR).
Lidia Vadim-Tudor was born on 3 August 1990 in Bucharest,the capital of Romania,less than a year after the Romanian Revolution which ended Socialist Republic of Romania. She is the eldest daughter of Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949–2015),who ran for president of Romania several times,in 2000 reaching to secound round,but losing to Ion Iliescu. She has been a defender of her farther's legacy. [1]
Tudor graduated from the Ion Luca Caragiale National College in Bucharest,and later attended the Faculty of Journalism and Psychology at Spiru Haret University. [2] [3] As of April 2024,Tudor had since 2005 been the editor-in-chief of România Mare ,a magazine founded in 1991 by her farther and which later developed into the Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare). [2]
On 2 April 2024,the Alliance for the Union of Romanians party (AUR),announced Tudor as its candidate for the mayorship of Bucharest's Sector 5 in the 2024 Romanian local elections on 9 June. [2]
In the 2024 Romanian parliamentary election on 1 December,Tudor was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) in Bucharest,taking office on 21 December. [4]
As an member of the Chamber of Deputies,she serves as Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture,Arts and the Media,as well as on the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men. In addition,Tudor is part of the parliamentary friendship groups with Portugal,Austria and Croatia. [4] In April 2025,she expressed concern over democratic backsliding in Romania in the context of the cancellation of the 2024 Romanian presidential election. [5]
On 10 July 2021,Tudor civilly married writer Dan-Alexandru Tano,who was 20 years her senior. However,Tano died on 16 October that year after contracting COVID-19,leaving Tudor a widow. [6] [7]