UDMR

Reference works place it in the centre-right, as a Christian-democratic member of the European People's Party. It won 22 Chamber and 10 Senate seats in 2024 and is named in the question of whether it will be in Romania's next government.

History

UDMR was founded on 25 December 1989, right after the fall of communism, and works as a federation of minority interests rather than a conventional party. Hunor Kelemen has been its president since 2011. It has 22 territorial organisations across Transylvania, Bucharest and elsewhere. In the 2024 parliamentary elections it won 22 seats in the Chamber and 10 in the Senate, with about 6.3% of the vote. Wikipedia lists it as a member of the coalition with PNL and USR that backed the Bolojan government from 2025.

Positions

Wikipedia gives its priorities as preserving Hungarian cultural and linguistic rights, access to education in Hungarian, territorial and cultural autonomy for Hungarian-majority areas such as Szeklerland, and administrative decentralisation. It describes the party as centre-right, Christian-democratic and pro-European, a member of the European People's Party, and notes reported close ties with Hungary's Fidesz.

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