The cooperation agreement for the year 2024 was signed by the Romanian Hungarian Democratic Alliance (RMDSZ) with the Transylvanian Hungarian Alliance (EMSZ) and the Hungarian Civil Force (MPE), this was announced separately by the president of the association Kelemen Hunor and the two smaller Hungarian parties its president, Zoltán Zakariás and József Kulcsár-Terza, on Wednesday in Cluj.
The details of the agreement between RMDSZ and EMSZ were said to apply to all elections in 2024. The EMSZ nominates Zsolt Szilágyi for the fourth place in the EP list of the RMDSZ, and the further composition of the list of candidates will be agreed upon later. They are announcing cooperation at the national level, but at the same time competition at the local level, but according to their agreement, they will mobilize together in order to ensure that in Marosvásárhely and the Maros County Council, as well as in Szatmárnémeti and the Szatmár County Municipality, the previous RMDSZ candidates can retain their positions.
In the case of both county seats, the mayoral candidate is shared, stated Zoltán Zakariás, who added to Maszol's question that, accordingly, joint mobilization is expected in the event of the success of the elections. The situation is different in the case of the lists of councillors, in this regard, cooperation depends on how the local organizations manage to agree on the support of the joint mayoral candidates.
In response to a journalist's question, RMDSZ president Kelemen Hunor stated: it is not a tripartite agreement with EMSZ and MPE. The RMDSZ made a separate agreement with the two small parties.
Pursuant to the agreement between the RMDSZ and the MPE, the Hungarian Civil Force can nominate a candidate for the fifth place on the RMDSZ's EP list, it was announced. Similar to the cooperation with EMSZ, the agreement with MPE also states that they will support each other at the national level and compete for this year's elections at the local level.
"We are not in love with the RMDSZ either, but we know that we must unite for the sake of Hungarianness"
József Kulcsár-Terza stated. When asked why it was not possible to conclude this agreement as a tripartite agreement, he answered that the EMSZ is not yet mature enough for this task.
Kelemen Hunor added that the important thing is that the two smaller parties agreed with the RMDSZ that "I do not have the competence to comment on how the furniture is ordered between them". The agreements, by the way, contain the same items and have created the unity that is needed and has precedent.
Featured image: Kelemen Hunor, president of the Romanian Hungarian Democratic Union (RMDSZ) (b) and Zoltán Zakariás, president of the Transylvanian Hungarian Union (EMSZ) sign an election agreement in Cluj on March 20, 2024. Regarding the four Romanian elections to be held in 2024, the RMDSZ concluded separate agreements with the two smaller Transylvanian Hungarian parties, the EMSZ and the Magyar Polgári Erö (MPE), but no tripartite agreement was reached. MTI/Gábor Kiss
