Béla Markó is a Romania

Romania

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n politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity. The former leader of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania

Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania

The Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, is the main political organisation representing the ethnic Hungarians of Romania....

 (UDMR), he is also the Deputy Premier

Prime Minister of Romania

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 in the Emil Boc

Emil Boc

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 government (which came to power on December 23, 2009); he had also been Minister of State in the Tăriceanu

Calin Popescu-Tariceanu

Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Romania between 29 December 2004 and 22 December 2008...

 cabinet between 2004 and 2007, in charge of culture, education and research and European integration.

Markó has been a senator

Senate of Romania

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 since 1990, and was the leader of the UDMR from 1993 to 2011. He competed in the 2004 Romanian presidential election

Romanian presidential election, 2004

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, and ranked fourth with 5.1% of the votes.