The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) gave up the Ministry of Finance because there was a request to the designated Prime Minister for it to be taken over by the National Liberal Party (PNL), UDMR leader Kelemen Hunor said, who emphasised that the future governance must be fair and effective.

‘In the end, we said we also want a Deputy Prime Minister without portfolio, with responsibilities in certain areas – of course, that will be decided by the Prime Minister – and we accepted to join under these conditions. (…) We will handle this, and I am convinced that we will be responsible, efficient, and professional, both in the areas of development, administration, public investment, and at the Ministry of Culture, where we have two competent people,’ Kelemen Hunor said in an interview with Digi24 TV.

According to him, the government must be fair, otherwise people will revolt.

‘So, we must begin this path. I don’t know how it will turn out, because Romania has never been governed under such a formula. The issue is that if social dissatisfaction grows and only AUR remains in opposition, AUR will have the opportunity and the capacity to gather all grievances and capitalise on them electorally. Therefore, from this perspective, it must be a high-performing government, it must demonstrate that it governs fairly and justly, and that it offers a long-term vision. Otherwise, if you only focus on increasing taxes and cutting expenditures, but fail to modernise the Romanian state, fail to eliminate privileges, and fail to reduce the extravagant spending accumulated over the years, people will revolt. This must be said, and both Ilie Bolojan and the entire government must be aware of these aspects,’ the UDMR president said.

UDMR will hold, in the new government, one Deputy Prime Minister position and the portfolios of Development and Culture.

AGERPRES