Candidate Kelemen: Political consensus necessary in key areas after presidential elections

Political consensus is necessary in several key areas after the presidential elections, says Hunor Kelemen, the candidate of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR).

'I have said we should have five important areas where consensus is reached after the presidential elections. Irrespective of who the winner is, we should sit at the same table, all political leaders, both from the Opposition and from the government side — and set several important aspirations as regards the education (a long-term strategy), a strategy for the healthcare, a strategy for the road and railway infrastructure, a strategy for the rural development and the agriculture, and a strategy for the ethnic minorities,' Kelemen explained on Thursday in Cluj-Napoca (northwest of Bucharest).

Romania needs a new Constitution, he added; it should be subject to public debate. The country also needs more trust, which is lacking at present — 'trust of the citizen into the state institutions, and trust of the state into the citizen.'

Kelemen thinks the president should be 'an architect, not a neurotic work site superintendent.'

The candidate accused the lack of serious debates in the campaign that is about to close, and the prevalence of unrelated topics.AGERPRES