Hungarian deputy PM: Every Hungarian vote is needed in Romania election

Every Hungarian vote in Sunday’s general election is needed following the first round of the Romanian presidential election, as achievements could otherwise be jeopardised, Zsolt Semjén, the deputy prime minister, said in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) on Wednesday.

Hungarians, he said, “should get out to vote” whatever the case rather than weighing up the Romanian political palette in the first place.

If the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) were not present in the Romanian parliament, Hungarians in Transylvania and Hungarian-Romanian relations would have to contend with “unforeseeable and tragic consequences”, he told journalists after addressing the inauguration of the renovated headquarters of the Kriza Janos Ethnographic Society.

RMDSZ leader Hunor Kelemen said a high turnout was expected in Sunday’s elections, which is why it was so important to mobilise Hungarian voters.

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