Romanian Hungarians need an open political platform

The Slovakian party Most-Hid comprising Slovakian and Hungarian parliamentarians can serve as a model for a Hungarian-Romanian party, writes the daily România Liberă: "When Romanian politicians don't dare do something on their own, they secure the support of the UDMR [Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania] in the belief that it has a constant electorate that votes for it regardless of how corrupt it is. But is that really the case? ... NGOs concerned with ... parliamentary sessions know that the UDMR systematically sabotages ideas involving transparency, responsibility and reform - regardless of whether the matter at hand is the reform of public television, public contracts or the freedom of information. ... The young people who are taking over are even worse and more corrupt than the old guard. ... By contrast the Slovakians and Hungarian-Slovakians have shown that politics based on closed ranks no longer works, and founded a Hungarian-Slovakian party. When will we found a Hungarian-Romanian one?"

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