First out gay candidate Florin Buhuceanu runs for parliament in Romania

The first out gay candidate Florin Buhuceanu is running for parliament in Romania. It comes after far-right candidate Calin Georgescu won the first round of the country’s presidential elections.

Buhuceanu has long been an activist for the LGBTQ+ community and is the first out gay politician to run for parliament in Romania, where the queer community still faces uncertainty. 

In 2019, the politician and his partner, alongside 20 other couples, took the country to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its refusal to formally recognise same-sex marriage or civil partnerships.

In 2023, the country was found to be breaching the human rights of same-sex couples by its refusal, the ECHR ruled. However, Romania has yet to formally recognise these rights for the LGBTQ+ community. 

According to IGLA-Europe, LGBTQ+

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