Senator Tanczos Barna on Monday said that much more focus is needed on current issues than on the electoral campaign, voicing hope that the UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania) will return to government after the December elections, in order to brings „more reason” and „the Romanian state closer to the citizens”.

According to him, the current governing coalition is a structure built in the context of a lack of alternative.

„Unfortunately, neither the PSD (Social Democratic Party) nor the PNL (National Liberal Party) want to work together, but they had no other alternative after they removed the UDMR from the government. With our departure, a lot of reason left, the voice of reason left this government and we need to bring it back in the political decision. The government must get closer to the people, instead of getting distance, as it does right now. Because what we see today is a politicization of the government’s activity, and perhaps it is also an electoral campaign. The stakes are huge for both parties. And, unfortunately, in the coming months, we will see many more purely political, purely propaganda statements and less reason. We hope that from December, after the December 1st elections, we can return to the Government to bring more reason and to bring the Romanian state closer to the citizens,” the UDMR senator said in Parliament.

In his opinion, the economic measures are „typical” of an election year, „they are not rational, investments stagnate, it is very difficult to pay those funds that are available from the PNNR [National Recovery and Resilience Plan] and it is very difficult to reach the beneficiaries, it is very difficult to reach the Romanian companies that work in these projects”.

Asked if the UDMR still has confidence to enter the government together with its former partners, Tanczos Barna mentioned that the elections must be waited for. „We have to wait for December 1,” he explained.

Regarding the possibility of forming a right-wing alliance, he pointed out that „anything is possible in the current political situation, any combination, any alliance with anyone”. „This is being discussed in all parties, so we, at least the Hungarian community, must focus on what we have to do in the next two months and after December 1st let’s see who wants to associate with whom, to form a team, because statements are statements, and the vote, the number of votes will be a totally different thing”, said the parliamentarian.

AGERPRES