Kelemen Hunor recently made it clear again that the RMDSZ wants to return to power in Bucharest after the December elections.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu visited Nagyvárad on Friday and Cluj-Napoca on Saturday, using the visit above all to finalize the strategy for the parliamentary and presidential elections to be held at the end of the year with the Transylvanian leaders of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he leads.
The prime minister has been in full campaign mode since his party elected him as the candidate for state president at the end of August. According to opinion polls, Ciolacu, who is considered to be the main candidate in the contest, has of course seen the situation in flood-stricken Galac county, and at the same time he is visiting factories and consulting with church leaders. The Romanian candidates for the head of state have expressed their opinions several times in the past period about who they would like to see in the prime minister's seat, and who they would not appoint as prime minister if they win the ongoing battle for the Cotroceni Palace.
For example, Marcel Ciolacu surprisingly stated recently that if he were to become the state president, he would not entrust someone from his own party to form a government, but would choose a candidate for prime minister from the group with which the PSD will form a coalition after the December elections.
"I am convinced that no party will be able to get 50 percent of the votes, so a government coalition will be necessary. What this coalition will look like depends on the Romanians' vote. Let's be clear: if the Romanians elect me as the president of Romania, I think it is fair if the party with which the PSD enters into a coalition gives the prime minister," said Ciolacu.
In connection with this, there was a change of blades between the coalition partners, as Nicolae Ciucă, the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and his candidate for the head of state, said in advance: he will not appoint Ciolacu as prime minister. To all this, the president of the PSD retaliated to the co-chairman of the left-liberal coalition by saying that he thinks so too, as he is convinced that Ciuca will not be elected president.
During his brief press statement in Cluj on Saturday, journalists asked Marcel Ciolacu whether he would appoint the current president Klaus Iohannis as head of government if elected as head of state, of course if the PSD wins the parliamentary contest (which is almost impossible). "I think there are a lot of ha's here. Secondly, I believe that Iohannis would not be suitable for a good head of government, despite the expertise he has acquired as president in the past ten years," Marcel Ciolacu opined.
To the question of whether he would entrust someone from the RMDSZ with the formation of a government in the event that he becomes the president of Romania, and the PSD, which he currently controls, enters into a coalition with the Hungarian formation. Ciolacu answered the Krónika with a strong grimace. "Sorry, we're entering the realm of speculation here. Let's wait for what the Romanians decide," the prime minister referred to the outcome of the elections.
By the way, during the government roles undertaken by the RMDSZ since 1996, the group - through Béla Markó and then Kelemen Hunor - held the position of deputy prime minister in the Bucharest cabinet on each occasion, but it was never considered that the association would receive the post of prime minister.
In this regard, the leaders of the RMDSZ have said on several occasions that Romania is not yet ready to have a Hungarian prime minister.
Kelemen Hunor recently made it clear again that the RMDSZ wants to return to power in Bucharest after the December elections.
They also wanted to make the Prime Minister of Romania react to the fact that the US ambassador in Budapest sharply criticized Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in recent days - as the journalist put it - "because of his activities against the Western world and his policy regarding Romania".
However, Marcel Ciolacu said that he is willing to answer this no later than December 8 (the second round of the presidential election), since foreign policy is the competence of the president. "I know how much the head of state likes to make statements and give interviews, but they still try to ask him this question. Or they should contact the Minister of Foreign Affairs," the Prime Minister refused to answer, referring to the fact that Klaus Iohannis has not given a single interview to the press in recent years and rarely appears in front of journalists.
Cover photo: Marcel Ciolacu
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