Democrat Union of Hungarians in Romania

President Klaus Iohannis nominated the former defence minister and reserve general Nicolae Ciuca as Romania's next Prime Minister of Romania on Monday after talks with most parties in parliament.

Romania's Senate on Monday postponed a vote on a bill designed to commemorate March 15 as the anniversary of the 1848 Revolution in Hungary.

Hungarians everywhere honour the uprising against Habsburg rule - eventually crushed by Austria with Russian aid.

The new Romanian parliament, elected on December 11, held its first sitting on Tuesday, with the Social Democratic Party, PSD and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, ALDE striking a deal to establish a coalition government.

The PSD and ALDE signed an agreement on Monday evening to come up with a joint cabinet, where portfolios are to be assigned to the two parties proportionally.

An opinion poll shows the main opposition party 10 percent ahead of the main ruling party, and all other parties except the Hungarian ethnics' below the electoral threshold.

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