Transylvania

Presidential candidate of the Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT) Szilagy Zsolt says Romania needs a reforming president who comes up with a project to modernise the state, which would led to normalcy being resumed in the relationships between various communities as well as their Europeanisation.

Zsolt Szilagyi, the presidential candidate of the Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT) presented his campaign programme on Monday; it was headed 'Federal Romania' or 'Transylvanization of Romania.'.

Spokeswoman for the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Gabriela Firea on Thursday said he wants to raise some red flags over the implication the family of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis in child trafficking, mentioning press reports to the point.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the presidential hopeful of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) on Friday told a press conference in Oradea that the Transport Master Plan was not signed by the incumbent Cabinet, on the one hand and on the other that the U.S. company in charge of the master plan is the world's largest in this sector.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Sunday, during a visit to Bistrita where he attended the consecration of the Annunciation Greek Catholic Church, that Romania belongs to all Romanians, regardless of religion.

The idea of regionalism is a sign of normality for which 'I call on the partnership of all minorities', the candidate of the People's Party of the Hungarians in Transylvania (PPMT) in this November's presidential elections, Szilagyi Zsolt said in this western Romanian city late on Thursday.

A Dutch moved to Romania after the fall of communism in 1989, and he has been working ever since to make a proper neighbourhood of Cluj-Napoca (northwest of Bucharest) out of the ghetto of Pata Rat (a name not related to the rodent, though).

Romania's governing Social Democrats have said they will not back an initiative by the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, UDMR, to create an autonomous region in Transylvania.

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Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Chair Hunor Kelemen declared that this ethnic minority party does not have a secessionist agenda in its project of autonomy for the Szekler region in western Transylvania.

The party representing ethnic Hungarians in Romania has made public a bill asking for greater autonomy for regions in Transylvania where Hungarians are concentrated.

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