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In a televised speech on Monday, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis again accused the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD) of supporting bills that would lead to Szeklerland’s autonomy. The head of state spoke about this early Monday afternoon in a televised statement whose central theme was the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.
According to the MTI, Iohannis spoke about the fact that, after his action last week, the PSD, the largest force in parliament, quickly revoked the bill on the territorial autonomy of Szeklerland in the upper house. He added, however, that the Social Democratic commissions in the Senate supported the initiative of the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (DAHR) to create a “parallel administrative code” “to make the Hungarian language mandatory in certain areas of Transylvania.” According to Klaus Iohannis, such laws “lead to the autonomy of Szeklerland”.
As we write, on Wednesday the Romanian Senate rejected a bill drafted by the Szekler National Council (SZNT) and re-introduced by two Hungarian members of the Bucharest parliament in December, which would provide territorial autonomy for Szeklerland.
Before that, Iohannis accused the Social Democratic Party, the largest force in parliament, of “fighting to give Transylvania to the Hungarians.” The Romanian head of state expressed his opinion that the Romanian lower house of parliament had recently tacitly adopted the Szeklerland bill on territorial autonomy (in fact, it had passed it to the Senate without a vote). In the end, only the DAHR faction supported the bill in the Senate.
Hunor Kelemen, the president of DAHR at the time, called Iohannis’ remarks a hysterical outburst unworthy of the head of state, an incitement to hatred against Hungarians.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó also responded to Iohannis’ speech in a Facebook video, saying that Iohannis’s expression was “especially uncivilized and hateful” and that he should be aware that the vast majority of Hungarians living in Transylvania and Szeklerland voted for him in the Romanian presidential elections.
this The Romanian Foreign Ministry called Szijjártó’s statement “provocative and inappropriate”, saying it misinterpreted Iohannis’s words and wrote that “Legislative initiative contrary to the provisions of the Romanian constitution” is an internal matter exclusively for Romania, the Hungarian side does not have to take a position on it.
Meanwhile, however, the Maszol.ro He reported that several in the Romanian press condemned the inciting statements by the head of state.
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