The President of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, declared on Tuesday, at the Cotroceni Palace, that early elections do not represent a solution to the current political crisis and that, currently, there is no legal framework for their organization.
"The government remains until September, interim, that's it. And then comes the fourth nomination, that in 60 days, okay, two governments fall and everyone is talking about early elections or a part, but now, come on, seriously, it's not about the instinct of parliamentarians to vote for a government on the second try. There are two more important issues for which I say that early elections cannot be organized in Romania. It's a political issue and a technical issue, which are related. The political issue is this: Romania remains without Parliament. In our constitutional, democratic construction, without Parliament, how long will we stay? A month? Two months? Three months? Four? And what will we do when we don't have Parliament? Because we won't have a government either. That's why we end up with early elections, that we have an interim government, with limited powers. Parliament cannot be dissolved just like that, partially. Or it can't be a Parliament with limited powers, because there is no law for such a thing. And after that comes the technical part: based on which law will we organize early elections? General law? We need a shorter procedure. If we don't stay for 4-5 months, we will stay without Parliament and without Government. So you realize that it can't be done. Everyone says: "We are going for early elections". Ok, and when the president wants to dissolve Parliament, what will be the legal basis on which the presidential decree will be established? I ask this question to all my colleagues, constitutionalists. There is no law today for organizing early elections. Period", declared Kelemen Hunor, at the end of consultations with President Nicusor Dan.
He added that "the option of early elections is not a solution."
Kelemen Hunor mentioned that, in a first stage, a majority is necessary for the formation of a government.
"First, a majority must be established on paper signed by the leaders, and after that, of course, this situation will no longer arise where the designated prime minister runs away to the AUR, because he was called there by President Simion. (...) This fight between parties must stop if you want to do something good for the country. (...) For us and for Romania, a government with a majority would be good, for there to be stability. We have no problem voting for a single-party PSD government, led by a PSD prime minister. In politics, if you take into account what expectations there are from the people, from society, then you are more cowardly out of pride and insults," the UDMR leader pointed out.
Asked who AUR leader George Simion "checkmated" on Monday, Kelemen Hunor replied: "Everyone."
"As you saw, everyone received "checkmate". Some were waiting for the government to pass, others for other reasons... So this is life - you have to admit when you receive checkmate, It is not a compliment, it is not something against George Simion, you simply have to admit, This happened until the last moment - he played and kept even those who were waiting for their votes in some tension," added the UDMR chairman.
