A mandate for establishing a right-wing pole for the 2024 elections was called on by the Save Romania Union party’s (USR) congress on Saturday.
In 2024, Romania will have four rounds of elections. First, the EU elections in June, followed by local elections. Towards the end of the year, presidential and parliamentary elections will be organised.
“It is the moment for us to start the fight for 2024 … Next year, we propose a right-wing pole around the USR that will have solutions for all rounds of elections”, Catalin Drula, USR leader said at the party congress in Bucharest.
He emphasised that USR collaborates very well in the Parliament with Forta Dreptei – a new party founded by former liberals leader and prime minister Ludovic Orban – and has had correct collaborations over time with the Hungarian minority party (UDMR), part of the coalition government until last week.
”I have emotions because I haven’t been to a congress of an opposition party in a very long time. But I’m trying to get used to this status … after our forced landing. You know the feeling”, UDMR leader Kelemen Hunor said, referring to how USR and UDMR were forced to leave the government.
The USR has become the biggest threat to the old parties and has a big challenge of saving the honour of the right parties, president of The People’s Movement Party (PMP) Eugen Tomac said.
In a video message, Stéphane Séjourné, the president of Renew Europe, stated that USR can be 2024 a real alternative to the PSD-PNL coalition.
Regarding the participation of the Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, at the USR congress, Cătălin Drula declared that the Save Romania Union will not leave Bucharest “in the hands of Gabriela Firea (former Bucharest mayor, now a social-democrat minister)” in 2024. At the local elections in 2000, Nicusor Dan was supported by USR and PNL.
PSD would get 28%, AUR (far right) 22%, PNL 18%, USR 13%, UDMR 6%, PMP 3%, Forța Dreptei 2% and Pro Romania 2%, if elections were held next Sunday, according to a survey conducted by The Center for USR.
(Cătălina Mihai | EURACTIV.ro)
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