PNL Satu Mare announced on Tuesday that it was resigning from leadership positions in local and district administration due to differences with UDMR, denouncing a “lack of honest partnership”, while UDMR accused PNL Satu Mare of supporting “politics”. division and destruction” and blocked local development projects. However, this situation did not affect the functioning and course of the government coalition at the central level, PNL spokesman Jonutz Stroe said, according to Agerpres.

The Satu Mare District branch of the PNL announced on Tuesday that it is giving up leadership positions in the local and district administration due to differences with the UDMR.

• “The PNL Satu Mare District Branch has unanimously decided to recall members from leadership positions in the Satu Mare District Council and the Satu Mare City Hall. We made this decision for several reasons, but I am sure that the main reasons are related to the hegemonic politics of the UDMR and the lack of honest partnership. The UDMR did not take into account the most important element, which is that we PNL Satu Mare members are concerned about the achievement of some of the goals we assumed during the election campaign, each present and not targeted, related to certain political functions.
• With or without the positions of Vice Mayor and Vice President of the County Council, PNL Satu Mare will contribute to some really important goals for the Municipality and County of Satu Mare. Our voters are not for sale. Those who voted for the NLP in the 2020 elections are not for sale, and we do not trade the votes of those who trusted us,” Satu Mare NLP president Adrian Kozma said at a press conference.

Kozma accused the regional organization of the UDMR of “totalitarian blunders”, namely of “repeated” violation of access to public information, delay in the execution of some works from European funds and directing state funds to the Union.

“Our action is not directed against anyone. If we have a dispute with UDMR, then we do not have a problem with ethnic Hungarians. We have a debate, a competition of ideas and projects with a party called UDMR, which turned out to be a double. It is also part of the majority of the government Romania, but is also part of the government from Budapest,” PNL leader Satu-Mare said.

What are the accusations made by UDMR

Representatives of the Satu Mare UDMR district organization have accused coalition partners with the PNL of supporting a “policy of division and destruction” after the Liberals announced on Tuesday that they were stepping down from their leadership positions.

“The Satu Mare District Council is the driving force behind the development of Satu Mare District, which has been demonstrated in recent years. Development of the district is possible only when all partners support this approach. Unfortunately, recently PNL Satu Mare has supported the politics of division and destruction, blocking development projects. The work of PNL mayors in the district, their projects are subject to risk and subject to the personal interests and goals of one person. Following this cheap and political approach, only the citizens of Satu Mare County stand to lose,” he said in a press release from UDMR Satu Mare.

Representatives of the Hungarian political formation claim that for the development of the county, it is necessary for the mayors in the county to cooperate with the county council, as this requires a majority in the council and a partnership with the mayors. to implement projects and attract new financing and investments.

“The county organizations UDMR, PSD and PMP support the development projects of Satu Mare county. Any political formation, when it represents citizens, must function according to principles and a certain normality,” the cited source adds.

The reaction of the PNL after the scandal in Satu Mare

PNL spokesman Jonuts Stroe said on Tuesday that the decision of the Satu Mare organization to give up leadership positions in the local and district administration due to differences with the UDMR is an individual one, and the functioning and course of the ruling coalition at the central level is not affected by this situation.

“This is an individual decision of the management of PNL Satu Mare. The central leadership of the party was not informed of this situation, nor implicitly of this decision, but we generally do not interfere in local or district politics either from an administrative point of view or from the point of view of alliances in the councils. This situation in no way affects the work and course of the coalition at the central level,” Stroe said, according to Agerpres.

He is convinced that PNL leader Satu Mare will inform the central leadership of the party about this situation.