Kelemen Hunor

Social Democrat Party (PSD) executive chairman Liviu Dragnea has stated on Monday that the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) continues to support the current governing coalition, fact confirmed by telephone by the chairman of the Union, Hunor Kelemen, to Prime Minister Victor Ponta.

First Deputy Chairman of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu is hailing the recommendation of the national leader of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Kelemen Hunor to the ethnic Hungarian voters in the November 16 presidential runoff election to vote according to their won beliefs, urging them to vote for ACL's candidate Klaus Iohannis.

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party alliance got 40.01 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, while Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis got 30.54 percent, according to partial data released by the Central Electoral

Incumbent Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party - National Union for Romania's Progress - Conservative Party alliance got 39.57 percent of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, while Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis got 30.19 percent, according to partial data released by the Central Electoral

The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) candidate for Presidency, Kelemen Hunor has cast his vote in his native commune Carta, and said when exiting the polling station that he had voted thinking to a strong Romania, a Romania that respects its citizens and would have a word to say in the Black Sea region and in the European Union.

All 14 candidates to president of Romania do not wish to meet in an electoral debate ahead of the first round of the polls to take place this Sunday, say the representatives of the Institute of Public Policies (IPP), the move initiator, following the talks held with the candidates' electoral campaign staff.

The National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) announced on Friday that none of the 14 candidates running for the office of President of Romania has been a collaborator or worked for the former political police 'Securitate'.

UDMR (Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania) chair, Kelemen Hunor, on Monday has submitted his bid to run for Romania's president to the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC).

He specified he collected more than 270,000 signatures.

The "Szeklers' Land" autonomy project to be submitted to the Parliament will be in public debate this month, said on Saturday in Covasna (central Romania) the UDMR (Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania) chairman, Kelemen Hunor.

According to Kelemen Hunor, the document was drafted in Romanian, its Hungarian translation being currently underway.

Senator of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Rozalia Biro on Monday told AGERPRES that "even after having completed Romanian-language college and postgraduate studies, anyone could make a faux pas like she did"; Biro's blunder drew President Traian Basescu's biting criticism as to her understanding of Romanian.