{"id":9034,"date":"2026-02-25T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:00:42","slug":"leader-of-hungarian-party-in-romania-backs-viktor-orban-ahead-of-april-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=9034","title":{"rendered":"Leader of Hungarian party in Romania backs Viktor Orban ahead of April vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kelemen Hunor<\/strong>, president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), said he would support Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in Hungary\u2019s parliamentary elections scheduled for April 12, stating that opposition leader Peter Magyar \u201cdid not convince him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/ro\/rom%C3%A2nia\/20260224-kelemen-hunor-la-rfi-eu-%C3%AEl-sus%C8%9Bin-la-alegeri-pe-viktor-orban?mc_cid=330568923e&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">RFI<\/a>, Hunor said that, in his view, \u201cthe better option scenario is that Orban continues his work, that is what I consider after everything I have seen in these years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UDMR leader described Orban\u2019s approach toward Hungarian minorities living outside Hungary\u2019s borders as a \u201ccoherent and responsible national policy,\u201d suggesting that continuity in Budapest would serve the interests of ethnic Hungarian communities in neighbouring countries, including Romania.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, Hunor said that Peter Magyar, who has emerged as a leading figure in Hungary\u2019s opposition, has not put forward proposals that would persuade him he would be \u201ca better leader.\u201d He added that neither Magyar nor other opposition figures had offered convincing alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy option would be Viktor Orban, if it matters somewhere,\u201d Hunor said.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that support for Orban among ethnic Hungarians in Romania remains overwhelming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote of Hungarians, from all the polls that we have done and that we know of, almost 92% &#8211; those who will express themselves &#8211; goes towards Orban,\u201d Hunor stated.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian citizens living abroad, including members of the Hungarian minority in Romania who hold dual citizenship, are entitled to vote in Hungary\u2019s parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Manases Sandor)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelemen Hunor, president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), said he would support Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in Hungary\u2019s parliamentary elections scheduled for April 12, stating that opposition leader Peter Magyar \u201cdid not convince him.\u201d Speaking to RFI, Hunor said that, in his view, \u201cthe better option scenario is that Orban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}