Candidate Funar accuses PSD, UDMR of collusion and treason

Gheorghe Funar, running for president as an independent candidate, accused the Social Democrat Party (PSD) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) - both in the ruling coalition - of having a secret pact. According to Funar, UDMR promised to bring the votes of ethnic Hungarians to incumbent Social Democrat Prime Minister Victor Ponta in the second round of the presidential elections, in exchange of Parliament's approval of the proposed legislation for the autonomy of the so-called Szekler Land in central Romania.

'There's a secret pact between PSD and UDMR, stipulating that PSD leaders have already negotiated the acknowledgement of the territorial autonomy of the Covasna, Harghita and Mures counties [the first two having a majority of Hungarian ethnics, the latter a high proportion of them], the acknowledgement based on ethnic criteria of the three counties, and the foundation of a small Hungaria in the heart of Romania, in exchange of ethnic Hungarians' votes for candidate Victor Viorel Ponta in the second round [of the November presidential elections]. (...) I discovered they plotted an extremely dangerous protocol, an act of national treason, devised by PSD and UDMR leaders,' Funar claimed in a press conference on Friday, in Cluj-Napoca (northwest of Bucharest).

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