UDMR President Kelemen Hunor said Monday night that the biggest danger in the 2024 elections is that the far right will win, and that “will not bring anything good for Romania,” according to Agerpres.

• “At the moment, no one has officially announced that they will run. The biggest danger is that the far-right will win. With which candidate, I do not know. Simion has not announced his candidacy either. At the moment, we do not have an official candidate (… ) I don’t know what would have happened, but nothing good would have happened for Romania, because what I hear in the parliament for three years has convinced me that we cannot go back to the 30s of the 20th century, with legionary ideology, with the fascism of the 1930s. I hear weekly quotes in parliament, I hear constant verbal aggression in parliament. This does not mean a project for Romania, it does not mean a project for the years to come. It means danger, it means danger for every community. What I saw inside and outside the parliament did not convince me that anything good would happen for Romania,” Kelemen Hunor told Digi 24.

The leader of the UDMR believes that there is a need to strengthen sanctions, to isolate such actions that set a wrong example for the population.

• “We have made rather weak changes (in the regulations of the parliament – no), in the sense of sanctions to those who are in the parliament, in the parliament are engaged in things that have no business there. But the sanctions should be much tougher. Verbal aggression in recent history, in the history we all know, has many times led to physical violence. Because what does a citizen see? The elected has the right to mess with the parliament. They attacked Popeska, if I am not mistaken, and other ministers in the parliament. And then the citizen says: “If it is possible there, I can do it outside the parliament.” That it is an expression of political choice. From my point of view, such cases should be isolated and sanctioned,” Kelemen Hunor believes.

People no longer believe in demagogic promises and are looking for something extravagant

In his opinion, the change in the voting option of the electorate shows that people are angry, stop believing in demagogic promises and are looking for “something new, something special, very often extravagant.”

• “People are angry. And if we look back a little, we will see that in 2019 and in 2014, but in 2019 it was important to analyze where the votes of the diaspora went. Let’s see where they went in the European Parliament and presidential elections. .. And let’s see in 2020 where these voices went and the orientation of those who left the country changed in an absolutely brutal year. If we look at the country, we see the same trend. That’s why people are angry, and that’s the first explanation. I no longer believe in mainstream parties. They are looking for something new, they are looking for something special, they are very often looking for something extravagant. Because there were too many promises, some made without knowing that they could not be fulfilled, others made with pure demagoguery, and then people say: “Sir, you were, you didn’t make it. Let’s see if someone can succeed.” That not everyone who votes from AUR reads the legionnaires of the 30s of the last century. We cannot say that. Here it is completely and completely different. And we must understand this anger, if we speak very honestly with the citizens, to say that it is possible, it is not possible, it can be done. then they will understand. But when they constantly receive demagogic promises and nothing happens, then surely at some point people will get angry,” explained the leader of the UDMR.

He stated that the UDMR will have its own candidate in the presidential elections and ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the AUR.

• “UDMR will have a candidate in the presidential elections, but it will not be me. I’ve been a candidate three times, I know how to do it, I know how to run a campaign, but someone else has to come. I don’t know who, we will decide it after the elections to the European Parliament, sometime in the summer of next year. (…) Just as we would never enter into a coalition with PRM or UNPR, I do not see any form of cooperation with AUR,” he said Kelemen Hunor.