Klaus Iohannis and Ilie Bolojan at Cotroceni Palace. Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The leader of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, spoke about Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, on Saturday, on Prima TV, and said that the current prime minister “is stubborn, as was Iohannis”, the former president of Romania.
Asked if he sees Ilie Bolojan more suitable for the position of prime minister than for the president, the UDMR leader replied: “Now he is a prime minister, we do not know how he was as president. He is a man of the Executive. He is a man who permanently seeks solutions on the problems of administration, so he was a mayor. He's a young man, we see. “
Kelemen Hunor said he kept his statement from 2024, when he had compared Ilie Bolojan with Klaus Iohannis and had stated about the current prime minister that “no one is right apart.”
“It's stubborn, yes. Two former mayors. Yes, Ilie Bolojan is stubborn, as was Iohannis, but, as a problem approach, it's something else, but then I referred to this stubborn, maybe, Transylvania, I don't want to insist, but I thought.”
When asked what differentiated the two, the UDMR leader said he did not “work with Iohannis very close, I do not want to make any comparison.”
Kelemen Hunor also spoke about the divergences he had with UDMR with Ilie Bolojan during the period when the Liberal was mayor of Oradia.
“In 2016 we were opponents and we did not understand each other, and there was a more conflict period, but we left those disputes in Oradea. Everything that is locally has to leave locally. If you permanently bring all the problems from local level, regardless of who it is and what region or county it is, you will be in the national disputes. Probably, or between the USR and the others, although at the central USR level with PSD they understood perfectly in 20 minutes (…), now, at negotiations, ”concluded Kelemen Hunor.
