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Chairman of the ruling Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) Bela Marko said on Friday that, as part of a process meant to amend the Constitution, he would have to think of a general reform of the institutions, the Government included, which should be deprived of the right to adopt emergency ordinances or assume responsibility for certain laws.

The Union leader told the RFI that UDMR went on supporting the removal of the collocation „national state” from the fundamental law.
„It goes without saying that this requirement is still valid as this definition has long lost its importance or justification or contents. In Romania there are important ethnic communities that have in the meantime got the right to use their mother tongue, schools, education system.

We cannot even say that, in reality, Romania is said today to work on the idea of one single state, one single nation, one single language, one single culture, as to me the definition of ‘national state’ means this thing,” said Bela Marko.

The Vice-Premier also stated the position of UDMR supporting a one-chamber Parliament, in which the Senate should be „a chamber of the regions or counties.”
He explained that this „does not mean that senators would possibly not be elected on lists by parties or at the suggestion of the parties, but anyway the way to elect and represent them should go on being different, the tasks that should be different included.”

„In some cases the Chamber of Deputies should have the final say and the Senate should probably have a control role, meant to monitor this political activity of the Chamber of Deputies …

Such systems are operational and what matters is the fact that, almost all over Europe, at least in the big countries, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Poland and Great Britain, there are two-chamber systems everywhere and, moreover, we ourselves have such a tradition,” said the UDMR chairman.

Referring to the debates on electing the President, Bela Marko said he was in favour of a system where the President should be elected by Parliament, but admits the fact that the Romanian public opinion would not accept such a solution.