Kelemen Hunor says there are 'issues' where the coalition has 'stuck': If we don't close the issue of magistrates' pensions somehow, 'we will apparently be an impotent majority'

The president of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, said on Digi24 on Monday that if the current governing coalition fails to take “a step” regarding the pensions of magistrates and the reform of the administration “we will be considered guilty by the citizens rightly – and everyone must understand this, and this is how we have wasted an enormous amount of time”.

Kelemen Hunor said that Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan “in certain moments is more inflexible, in certain moments and on certain subjects he is more flexible”.

“And he learned a lot since he came to Bucharest from Oradea, that's how I feel, because there he didn't need agreements, that he had a majority (…), but there are certain issues where, indeed, we got stuck. I'm not saying that I'm guilty, I'm not saying that he or Sorin Grindeanu, or Fritz, that's not the problem,” added the UDMR leader.

He believes that the current coalition needs to make progress on the bill on magistrates' pensions and administrative reform.

“The problem is that if we fail to take a step in these two issues and after that in the economic area we will be considered guilty by the citizens rightly – and everyone must understand this, and that's how we wasted an enormous amount of time”, continued Kelemen Hunor.

The president of the UDMR said that the parties in the coalition risk losing “that little bit of credibility.”

“I, not being in the Government, allow myself to speak more directly and perhaps much more honestly than the members of the Government, but if we continue like this, the question of who does or who does not make the AUR majority no longer arises. The problem arises in the following way, that we also lose that little credibility, which was left in the last period”, Kelemen Hunor also stated.

What he said about the magistrates' pensions law

The UDMR leader explained that the current majority will appear “impotent” if it fails to draft a project in this regard. The first option, adopted by the Government by assuming responsibility, was rejected by the Constitutional Court on October 20.

“From my point of view, it's an area where if we don't close this subject in some way, and I think we have to close after we have the Court's reasoning, that the Court's reasoning has not yet appeared, if we don't close, we all lose, because apparently we will be a coalition, a Government, an impotent majority, which is not able to make a law, to pass a law through Parliament. People are extremely nervous. If there is a subject at this moment behind to which there is a majority in society and there is a majority behind the coalition, it is the subject of the retirement of the magistrates”, Kelemen Hunor also stated.