UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania) leader Kelemen Hunor on Tuesday said that there will be a change of government after the presidential elections, if the coalition’s [Romania Forward electoral alliance – editor’s note]candidate, Crin Antonescu, does not win, because there will be pressure on the parties in the coalition, and each president wants to have his own majority.

„Think that in Romania, from Basescu onwards, every president has had constitutional and political instruments to build a majority. Basescu did it more loudly, Iohannis did it more quietly, but each one of them has built a majority, which is somehow okay, because the president is the most legitimate person. (…) He needs a government, not just a somewhat peaceful cohabitation. He needs a government with which he collaborates, a parliamentary majority, especially in this period of brutal change around us and with ourselves, these changes are happening. And he will create a majority,” Kelemen Hunor told RFI radio station.

The UDMR leader added that if someone else wins the presidential elections, and not the candidate of the coalition, he/she will create another majority.

„From a political point of view, it’s logical – you lost the elections, the one who won the elections will try to form a majority. What that majority will look like, what mathematical political formula can be found, this is another discussion. But there’s no way the coalition can survive in this form if Antonescu doesn’t win,” Kelemen Hunor argued.

According to him, the situation after the last elections was very different, „because the presidential elections were canceled,” a government had to be formed, and „the budget problem was huge,” and then it was no longer the time for radical changes, especially in the context of the upcoming presidential elections in the spring of 2025.

AGERPRES