The Romanian branch of Italian fascism was always minor, and vied for attention with a plethora of paramilitary groups. As suggested by Costantini, it shared their anticommunism and contempt for democracy, but was the only one to be directly inspired by Mussolini. In 1922, MNFIR split, and its more powerful sections, presided upon by Titus Panaitescu Vifor, merged with the National Romanian Fascio (FNR). However, in 1923, Bacaloglu reentered central politics as leader of the reconstructed MNFIR, directly modeled on the "Fasci Italiani". On December 30 of that year, she founded the propaganda weekly "Mișcarea Națională Fascistă", of which she was also the "political director". Only about a hundred people were persuaded to join, even though, as historian Francisco Veiga notes, many represented the more active strata of Romanian society (soldiers, students). Powerful cells gravitated around the University of Cluj (Transylvania) and Constantin Bacaloglu's own Iași University. Women themselves were largely absent: still not granted the vote under the 1923 Constitution, they generally preferred enrollment in specifically feminist organizations, and were never popular with the more significant Romanian fascist parties (including, from 1927, the Iron Guard).