Hunor Kelemen

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta sent a letter to the leaders of the main political parties on Thursday asking them to back the candidate of Romania for European Regional Policy Commissioner, Corina Cretu.

*Prime Minister Victor Ponta says a 2005 law on restitution of real estate properties confiscated by the communist regime was the worst harm ever done to Romania.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta would get 46 percent of Romanians' votes in the first round of the presidential elections, while Klaus Iohannis would have 24 percent, the most recent CSCI poll remitted on Monday to AGERPRES shows.

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.

The Democratic Union of Hungrians in Romania, UDMR, has decided to stay in the center-left coalition, although party leader Kelemen Hunor has announced that he will step down from his cabinet post.

The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) will stay in government, party leader Kelemen Hunor announced on Friday, adding he will step down from all the positions he holds in the Victor Ponta Cabinet.

UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarian in Romania) Senator, Verestoy Attila, on Friday told RFI broadcaster that, in his opinion, UDMR should stay at rule. Moreover, he stated that a possible resignation of the UDMR leader from the government doesn't necessarily mean the party should leave too.

Asked whether, in his opinion, UDMR should stay at rule, the Senator replied:

The result around 6-7 percent obtained by the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) in the European Parliament elections is good, proving once again that the Union continues to be the credible representative of the Hungarian ethnics' community of Romania, UDMR President Hunor Kelemen said after the poll closing on Sunday evening.