For Romania and its society, the year 2024 is of the highest political and electoral significance. For the first time in the country’s history, citizens will be asked to vote in all four rounds of elections – European, local, parliamentary and presidential.
Apart from these elections, the extraordinary mobilisation of several civic organisations will lead to a national referendum to amend the Constitution. Specifically, Romanians will be asked to vote on two of the crucial issues of our time: on the one hand, on the explicit definition of the family as the freely consented marriage between a man and a woman, and on the other hand, on the express specification of the right to use cash for any economic transaction. Today, the Romanian Constitution states that the family is based on the marriage of the spouses by mutual consent and makes no mention of cash payments.
If this referendum is validated and a majority of citizens say 'yes’, Romania’s fundamental law will include two principles essential for the health and future of Romanian society and nation.

Let’s take a look back. The initiative to hold a referendum to expressly stipulate that the family is based on marriage „between a man and a woman” is not new. In October 2018, a referendum on this matter, which was initiated by the then Coalition for the Family – a coalition of Christian and traditionalist NGOs – was invalidated by Romania’s Constitutional Court because it did not meet the threshold required for validation – 30% of the voting population. Five years ago, 91.5% of those who turned out to vote – more than 3.5 million Romanians – voted in favour of the amendment, i.e. in favour of an express specification in the Constitution that the family is based on marriage between a man and a woman. Despite this overwhelming majority, the referendum was declared invalid for legal reasons and the constitutional amendment was not implemented. The failure to reach the legal quorum was explained by the leaders of the Coalition by the huge propaganda and manipulation machinery, which directly or indirectly urged to boycott the referendum. However, the overwhelming vote was one of the strongest signals that the Romanian people understand how important it is to defend their faith and normality.
Today, five years after the failed attempt to amend the Constitution, Romanians are looking forward to a new referendum. A new platform, called the Coalition for the Constitution, has started legal steps to ensure that Romanians can vote to change their country’s constitution in 2024. This time, it will be about two articles of the fundamental law, both the one on the natural family and another on the explicit specification of the freedom of every person to make cash payments.

Under Romanian law, the revision of the Constitution can be initiated by, among others, at least 500,000 voting citizens. The draft revision must be adopted by both Chambers of the Romanian Parliament, with a majority of at least two thirds of the members of each chamber. The revision will be final after approval by referendum, expected to take place in the second half of next year, according to the initiators.
In many European countries, their national constitutions explicitly mention that the family is the union between a man and a woman. Among these are Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary. A few decades ago, such civic and political efforts to expressly stipulate in the constitution what the family is based on would have been unthinkable. Who would have thought that the simplest and most elementary realities, scientific, biological and natural, should be stated plainly and unequivocally so that society does not fall into the abyss of irrationality and self-destructive madness? If, in order to save our civilisation and humanity, it is necessary to spell out in national constitutions elementary 'details’ such as this on marriage between man and woman, we will do so without hesitation. The effort is nothing compared to the stakes.

As regards the freedom to use cash, such a constitutional amendment is directly related to the recent debates in the Romanian public space – and not only – on limiting cash payments and indirectly stimulating electronic payments. The pretext for limiting cash transactions is the same every time: combating tax evasion. The real reason: mass surveillance of people’s and companies’ financial transactions and the implicit loss of freedom.
While Austria and Switzerland have announced plans to amend their constitutions to introduce the right to use cash, Slovakia recently benefited from a similar constitutional amendment to this effect.
In Romania, the initiative to amend the Constitution is a phase of the fight for freedom and the natural family. It is the most difficult and unconventional war of all time. What is at stake? Our salvation.

Dragoș Moldoveanu was born in 1985 in Romania (Neamț county).
He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science – University of Bucharest (2008), and the Faculty of Law – Nicolae Titulescu University (2020). He holds a Master in Political Theory (2013).
Author of more than 100 articles, book reviews and translations published in “The Conservative Movement”, “Lumea Magazin” (Romania), “Convorbiri literare” (Romania), “Rost” (Romania), “Verso” (Romania), “Nazione Futura” (Italy), he is the founder and President of the Institute for Renaissance Studies Assocation (Romania).
Currently he is a Parliamentary advisor at the Romanian Senate and a member of the Board of the Mihai Eminescu Institute for Conservative Political Studies and General Secretary of “Rost” Association.