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A renowned specialist in private law, former judge, lawyer Ioan Sabău Pop is a professor at the “Petru Maior” University of Târgu Mureş, a member of the International Court of International Arbitration attached to the Romanian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. It draws our attention, once again, to a terrifying reality, reports the Evenimentul Zilei of Transylvania.
Massive and illegal restitutions are a danger to the integrity of Romania, says private law specialist
Ioan Sabău Pop warns of the danger of losing, entirely Transylvania, after the massive and illegal restitutions of the last years. The lawyer denounced an unprecedented abuse of refunds, with double refunds in favor of Hungarian citizens. Currently, according to the lawyer, 30% of the land holdings in Transylvania belong to citizens of Hungary. Scandalous, in the forests of the area, barriers have even been placed that prohibit access.
“When the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, by the Treaty of Trianon, the citizens of this empire had the opportunity to choose one of the citizenships of the successor states. The counts, the barons, the counts, the great Hungarian landowners They did not stay in Transylvania anyway, they came here just to reap the rewards. Of these, more than 90% opted for Hungarian citizenship and left, which is why they are called Hungarian Electives. In 1921, the Romanian state enacted the Agrarian Reform Law, which provided for the expropriation of large landowners, especially Hungarians and the deceased.
The optants were compensated at the time for the losses suffered, says the specialist in private law.
The law was challenged in international forums and, after the Paris Arbitration, Romania paid compensation for the expropriations carried out against the optants, and even 10% more. Hungary had to pay $ 87 million in war compensation to the Romanian state, and the Romanian state gave up this money, provided that Hungarian voters received payment of this amount. In addition to this money, the Romanian state also made periodic payments to the Hungarian optants, the equivalent of 4.48 tons of gold. Then, after 1990, the descendants of the optants came to claim the lands already paid for by the Romanian state, ”declared Ioan Sabău Pop.
The Trianon Treaty provided, without the possibility of other interpretations, that Hungary should hand over to Romania all the historical and patrimonial archives. However, this obligation has not been fulfilled to this day, says the lawyer.
“After the Second World War, the Romanian state neglected the construction and preservation of the archives in Hungary, as well as the pressure to hand them over. The land books were taken over by the optants and by the rulers of Transylvania from 1919 and 1920 abroad and then there is a very interesting legal problem, namely the fact that the owner is considered to be the last to be written in the land book. And so the Romanian State ended up returning what it had already paid, when third and fourth generation Hungarians began to arrive in Romania to claim the land, based on the land books, ”lawyer Sabău Pop also specified.
30% of Transylvanian land holdings no longer belong to Romania
“At this time, in the Transylvanian counties, which I know very well, barriers began to appear in the forests returned without rights. In Mureș and Harghita counties, around 70,000 hectares of forest, pasture and agricultural land were returned. Large areas of forests, pastures and agricultural land, especially in strategic areas, such as the Apuseni mountains, in Covasna, in Harghita and in Mureș, where there are some interests of strategy and national defense, no longer belong to the Romanians, which is very serious. ”, Also affirmed Ioan Sabău Pop.
