although styled "independent national-christian" in its original format, "telegraf" was identifiable as a tribune of an openly nazi group, the romanian national socialist party (pnsr). the merger of platforms began in august 1933, when cecan and an associate, major rotaru, wrote a piece favoring a "singular nationalist front" comprising the pnsr, the national-christian defense league, and the iron guard. this alliance, they argued, would follow the model of the german nazi party by uniting romanians "around the national christian flag", "uproot[ing] the old, jewified, rot of politicking". in september, he was also elected honorary president of the pnsr's bessarabian branch. in october, he spoke at the pnsr congress in chișinău, alleging that bessarabia was suffering under "the vampiresque exploitation of judaism". elected to the party's executive leadership structure on that occasion, cecan also served as leader of the pnsr cell in chișinău, alongside v. leidenius, publisher of "voskresenie" newspaper.