Hungary parties welcome Romania election result

Budapest, December 12 (MTI) – Hungary’s political parties have hailed the outcome of Romania’s recent general election, in which the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party garnered over 6 percent of the votes and will have seats in the Bucharest parliament.

Jobbik said the Hungarian community would have a strong representation and added that it expected “credible, efficient, and consistent” work from the Hungarian deputies. MP István Szávay told a press conference that his party also welcomed that “openly anti-Hungarian” parties had not garnered enough votes to clear the parliamentary threshold of 5 percent.

The opposition Socialists said they trusted that Romania’s Social Democrats, who won the election, “will cooperate with representatives of the Hungarian community”. It is in the interests of “Hungarians on both sides of the border” that governments of the two countries are on good terms, they added, but voiced reservations concerning ruling Fidesz’s “changeable” policy and “nationalistic rhetoric”.