Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) chairman Kelemen Hunor on Tuesday said that the party he is running will vote in Parliament the governance programme and the government headed by Sorin Grindeanu, but he pointed out that this vote does not represent a „blank cheque.”
„After an assessment of the governance programme, we have cast an unanimous vote. As we have a parliamentary collaboration protocol with the PSD-ALDE [Social Democratic Party-Alliance of Liberals and Democrats] ruling coalition, tomorrow we will vote for the governance programme, the Government headed by Sorin Grindeanu. This doesn’t mean we’ll agree to all governmental projects. In the months to come, we also want to give a perspective to the parliamentary collaboration through weekly and to the point discussions in respect to each governmental initiative, each legislative initiative, as our purpose is to reestablish the role and weight of Parliament in respect to legislation and political decisions. Therefore, it is not a blank cheque at the moment, but it is, in order to embark on this path, a vote of confidence and we’ll continue the discussions with this coalition every week on the level of group and party leaders,” Kelemen Hunor said at the end of the UDMR parliamentary groups meeting.
According to him, the UDMR MPs found that the PSD’s governance programme includes „very many elements (…) identical” to proposals of the Union’s electoral programme.
