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Hungarian ethnic minorities in Romania have two major parties to vote for: either RMDSZ (Hungarian Democratic Alliance of Romania) or MPP (Hungarian Civic Party). As elections will be held next year in Romania, it is crucial to call people’s attention to the fact that Hungarian representation in Romanian and EU Parliament is important. It is an existential question for all Hungarians in Romania, as their identity, mother tongue usage, and historical heritage is at stake.
The two smaller Hungarian parties in Transylvania also need unity in next year’s Romanian elections. Zoltán Zakariás, EMSZ (Transylvanian Hungarian Association) president, and József Kulcsár-Terza, MPE (Hungarian Civic Force) executive chairman, told the Transylvanian public portal that
the failure of the Hungarian minority’s political representation in the recent elections in Slovakia also shows the need for unity.”
The leaderships of the two smaller Hungarian parties in Transylvania, the Transylvanian Hungarian Alliance (EMSZ) and the Hungarian Civic Force (MPE), also see the need for Hungarian unity in 2024, when four elections will be held in Romania, the party leaders told Krónika newspaper on Thursday.
Unity could be achieved in some Transylvanian municipalities as early as September’s municipal elections, although they usually call for a contest in those. In the parliamentary elections, on the other hand, they both see the need for unity among the Hungarian political formations in Transylvania.
Zoltán Zakariás, the president-elect of the MPP, said that although there are “different situations and interests,” the party would like to reach an agreement with the RMDSZ on the four elections “as a package.”
“We are primarily interested in the municipal elections, and if we could reach an agreement, we could campaign more clearly in that contest as well,” told Zakariás. According to the EEAS President,
unity would be necessary already in June at the European Parliament elections, as it will be difficult for the RMDSZ to cross the five percent threshold.”
Zakariás added that they should join forces to maximize votes. József Kulcsár-Terza, the acting president of the MPE, a new party registered in March, also said it was very important to create a coalition. He believes that the fate of the representation of Transylvanian Hungarians in Brussels and Bucharest depends on it.
“In the municipal elections, in those municipalities – and I am thinking here mainly of Szeklerland – where it is possible, we should “scale up,” but where it is necessary, we shall unite, for example in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș). Competition is healthy where possible,
but we must not allow a Romanian mayor to become the head of a municipality because of a dispute between Hungarians,”
József Kulcsár-Terza told Krónika.
After the meeting of the Federal Council of Deputies (FCC) in Cluj-Napoca last week, RMDSZ President, Hunor Kelemen, asserted that there has been a well-established scenario for Hungarian cooperation in Transylvania for eight years. “Cooperation in the parliamentary elections is a given, in the local elections it will be a contest,” he responded.
Via: mti, kronika. ro; Featured photo: Hungary Today.