Only 40 years old, the executive president is number 2 in the union and he is considered the right successor of UDMR president Marko Bela.
After his colleague, Nagy Zsolt, one of Marko’s closest people entered the scandal of betrayed privatizations, Kelemen’s career took an ascending tendency.
Responsible for the image prejudice brought by this scandal was found the ex executive president Takacs Csaba, the political chief of Nagy. His definitive withdrawal from politics opened Kelemen’s road to the second position in the union.
To save the result of the European elections, where Kelemen is the new campaign chief, UDMR had to show openness towards the radicals around the reformed bishop Laszlo Tokes, who positioned on Basescu’s side.