Peter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza party, which won the parliamentary elections in Hungary, had a discussion on Monday evening with the president of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, who is to go to Budapest for a face-to-face meeting.
Kelemen Hunor was targeted by Magyar's criticism on Monday in the nearly 3-hour press conference held in Budapest. Magyar said that a large part of Hungarians in Romania voted with Fidesz because “they are being misled”, stating that “the same propaganda works in Romania”. He added that he would support Hungarians living in Romania “in any way possible”.
Magyar said that Hunor “also had a role”, accusing the UDMR of “participating in a campaign to misinform and mislead Hungarians in Romania”.
“I think it wasn't right,” he said, adding that he intends to talk directly with the UDMR leader: “I'm going to talk to Kelemen Hunor and tell him that I don't hold a grudge.”
Magyar: “We agreed to continue the talks next week, face to face.”
“Today I spoke on the phone with Hunor Kelemen, the president of the UDMR, after speaking with 10 European leaders. We agreed to continue the talks next week, face to face, in Budapest,” Peter Magyar wrote on Facebook late Monday.
In an interview for the Hungarian-language press, prior to the discussion with Magyar, Kelemen Hunor declared that the elections in Hungary were conducted “correctly” and the decision of the electorate was a “clear” one, and he stated that he congratulated Peter Magyar after the victory obtained in front of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whom the UDMR had supported in the campaign.
“The national policy that FIDESZ implemented in the last decade and a half, whose symbolic content was much more important than the material part, aroused sympathy and identification among the vast majority of Transylvanian Hungarians. UDMR did what it did and said what it said in accordance with the vast majority of Transylvanian Hungarians,” added Kelemen Hunor.
He claims that it would be problematic for the UDMR if it were concluded that it thinks and represents “something other than the great majority of Hungarians in Transylvania”.
“I think we did the right thing, our decision was logical and understandable,” the UDMR president continued.
