József Kulcsár-Terza will once again bring Székelyföld's autonomy draft to the Bucharest legislature, and his co-initiator, Zoltán Zakariás, will support it with his signature, the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ) announced on Monday. (Pictured above.)

The two politicians of the party alliance formed by the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party (EMNP) and the Hungarian Civil Party (MPP) (the court registration of the merger has not yet been completed) informed their fellow representatives at last week's meeting of the regional self-government working group of the Forum of Hungarian Representatives of the Carpathian Basin (KMKF) in Budapest. in the Hungarian Parliament.

The agenda of the meeting included the minority protection aspects of the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of Europe, the self-governance problems of the Hungarian parts of the Carpathian Basin, as well as the issues of European civil initiatives for the protection of minorities. At the board's meeting, members of parliament from the bourgeois party and the people's party, who won a mandate on the list of the RMDSZ, reported on the state of the autonomy aspirations.

József Kulcsár-Terza said: he will resubmit the proposal on the autonomy draft of Székelyföld to the Bucharest legislature, which will be supported by his fellow representative, Zoltán Zakariás, as a co-initiator. The politicians of the EMSZ reminded that the program of the government formed in December with the participation of the RMDSZ also includes the submission of the draft law on minorities, which can be expected to take place "after September".

Zoltán Zakariás emphasized: the goal of the law should be the institutionalization of cultural autonomy, and the political parties should work on it during the summer together with the civil organizations that have dealt with the topic in depth so far. Although the EMSZ announcement about the announcement of the two politicians does not specify, the Kulcsár-Terzás will presumably once again submit the autonomy statute developed by the Székely National Council (SZNT) to the Romanian legislature.

A vote was first held in the Bucharest parliament on the statute providing territorial autonomy for Székelyföld in 2004, and then on an amended draft in 2012. In all cases, the documents were rejected without a substantive debate or a single Romanian vote of support.

At the same time, last April, a political scandal and anti-Hungarian sentiments (among other things, President Klaus Iohannis' outburst about the kidnapping of Transylvania) were caused by the tacit acceptance by the House of Representatives of the representatives Zsolt Biró and József Kulcsár-Terza, who won a mandate on the RMDSZ list in December 2019, and previously politicized for the MPP submitted draft law. This was ultimately rejected by the Senate as the decision-making chamber, and the autonomy draft was supported only by the RMDSZ faction. Before the presidential election campaign in 2014, the RMDSZ initiated a public debate on the draft law, developed by the association's experts, providing autonomy for Székelyföld, but this document has not been submitted to the Bucharest parliament since then.

Source: Kronikaonline.ro