UDMR's Hunor: If you want to bring down Gov't, you must have necessary votes

The President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), Kelemen Hunor, declared on Monday that he has no emotions regarding the four motions of censure announced by the MPs from the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), emphasizing that if they want to bring down the Government, they must have the necessary votes.

"In the event of a motion of censure, it is not the power that must secure the votes, but those who want to bring it down. The power only brings arguments to the people, why these measures are necessary. The opposition must gather the votes, not the power", emphasized Kelemen Hunor, at the Parliament, when asked whether he would take any measures to keep the MPs in the seats, agerpres reports.

According to him, whether the UDMR MPs remain in the chamber or not are irrelevant issues.

"These are absolutely minor, irrelevant issues. Do you want to bring down the Government? You have to garner the necessary votes. Don't you have the necessary votes? Of course you won't succeed in bringing down the Government. The rest are tactics, technical issues, they have no connection with the country, politics, or citizens. Whether they are sitting on the bench, sitting on the edge of the bench or knocking on the door, it doesn't matter," added the UDMR leader.

AUR parliamentarians will submit motions of censure on four of the bills for which the Government will assume responsibility, with the exception of the bill regarding magistrates' pensions, the leader of the party's senators, Petrisor Peiu announced on Monday.

He stressed that, in the opinion of AUR, the assumption of the Government's responsibility for five bills on the same day is an unprecedented move in a member state of the European Union.

"The constitutional procedure provides for all this assumption of responsibility for exceptional cases, for one law. Of course, in the past, the Boc Government abused this provision once, coming up with two laws on the same day. But the rule is to have a bill for which to assume responsibility. What the Government is doing now can be considered as a kind of legislative terrorism, because, although we have entered the normal parliamentary session, although the governing coalition has a majority of over 70% in Parliament, so it can pass any bill it wants, it decided on this abuse, which calls into question the democratic foundation of our society", Peiu argued.