





Deputy Arpad Antal: The Hungarian Counties were militarized
In brief:
● “I can not put pressure for decentralization in Transylvania, at least for a while. People will say that I am Hungarian or separatist or other things", said the PSD leader.
● Liberal vice president Bogdan Olteanu admits that "there are institutions, especially the military ones, in which there is a low penetration of the Hungarian minority”.
● UDMR deputy Arpad Antal is convinced that “Kosovo is a precedent after all, at least because the European community intervenes in solving the problems of a minority group, a solving that means including a regional government".
● Liberal vice president Bogdan Olteanu says that the different positions assumed by the Government (not recognizing Kosovo) and the governing partners (UDMR, who recognized the new state) should not lead to expelling UDMR from the government, because it would mean that Romania returned to 1990 with its politics. "It was normal to have a Hungarian demanding the UDMR expelling. Take it as a joke", said Olteanu.
● Vasile Dancu claims that UDMR must join the Opposition, not only because it expressed a position contrary to the one assumed by the Government in the Kosovo matter, but also because it has to fight for decentralization from the Opposition rows.
● Olteanu says that Harghita and Covasna are the poorest counties but receive more from the budget than other counties, following the solidarity principle.
Read the full debate in Romanian