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The executive chairman of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR), Deputy Kelemen Hunor, said in an address to Parliament on Tuesday that the Boc Government worked “by violating the principle of the separation of powers in the state.”

Kelemen Hunor said that the members of the Hungarian community were firmly convinced that a Parliament controlled Government was necessary and rhetorically asked why the power was in such a hurry to organize a referendum on a unicameral law making body.

He drew a parallel between the people’s vote organized for introducing the single vote and the “deficient law that resulted” and the referendum that was to be organized for a unicameral Parliament. “We have initiated this censure motion for the very reason that the current Government worked by violating the principle of the separation of powers in the state.

Why suddenly so much concern for imposing a referendum? … Are you satisfied with what came out of the single vote? The same will come out of the referendum on the unicameral Parliament. … Mr Boc, as a remarkable lawyer that you are, wouldn’t it be better if you dissolved Parliament?” said the UDMR deputy. He criticized the Government for assuming responsibility by forcing the law “as was done in old times, when builders used to report blocks of flats finished although they had no pipes and said that they fulfilled the plan.”

The UDMR executive chairman maintained that he would have liked to get a solution to the political crisis through the resignation of the Government, concurrently with the decision made by the Constitutional Court on the vote of no confidence, but, in his opinion, “unfortunately, the Government did not understand that it did not have the legal right to rule.”

Kelemen Hunor remarked that, after Parliament faced a year full of ordinances, currently it had to cope with an autumn full of assumptions and conveyed a message to the two big political groups in the law making body, the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Liberal Party, that “power corrupts, the absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

In the opinion of the UDMR representative, the law making body does not only debate a vote of no confidence on Tuesday, it also debates the democratic principles of the law-based state. According to Kelemen Hunor, deputies and senators face the problem of the power relations among the state institution, of the relations among Parliament, the Government and the President.

“We have no political option, we have a problem related to the institutional blockage. Twenty years after the Revolution, once we have joined NATO and the EU, we seem to have no major political desideratum, we seem to have drifted away. Twenty years after the Revolution we have come to a political crisis, superimposed over the peak of the economic crisis,” said the UDMR executive chairman.