The Bucharest court considered it unfounded and rejected the registration of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ), created by the merger of the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party (EMNP) and the Hungarian Civil Party (MPP).
The summary of the decision made on Thursday was published on the portal of the Romanian courts on Friday. The judgment is not final, the parties can file an appeal within five days .
On January 18, 2020, the meeting of delegates of the two parties in Csíkszereda decided on the merger of the EMNP and the MPP. The parties' decision-making bodies also decided that the new party will be called the Transylvanian Hungarian Association. With the same name, the parties also registered a political alliance in court so that they could run together in the 2020 municipal elections. The registration of the new party created through the merger was started only after the elections, so that the possibly lengthy court procedure of the registration of the merger could not jeopardize their participation in the elections.
The EMSZ obtained about 11 percent of the votes cast on the local government candidate lists of the Hungarian parties. The more than 44,000 votes cast for the association resulted in 312 municipal representative mandates.
For the parliamentary elections held in December last year, the EMSZ concluded an agreement with the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (RMDSZ). The latter ceded two seats to the EMSZ candidates on the list of candidates in the House of Representatives, so Zoltán Zakariás of the EMNP and József Kulcsár Terza of the MPP also gained parliamentary mandates.
Source: Erdély.ma
(Cover photo: János Mezei and István Csomortányi. Photo: MTI/Gábor Kiss)
