István Csomortányi was re-elected to the post of president of the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party

The Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party (EMNP) re-elected István Csomortányi, who has led the party since March 2019, as its president at the national delegate meeting held on Sunday, the press office of the EMNP informed.

Due to the flare-up of the coronavirus epidemic in Romania, the delegates gathered at seven different locations for the renewal national delegate meeting and discussed the party's affairs through a live Internet connection between the locations.

Csomortányi was the only candidate for the presidency. The work of the party chairman will be assisted by Hunor Brassai, Ernő Fancsali, Attila Györgyi, István Kolcza, Levente Sándor, Ottó Szabó, Ervin Tőke, Tibor T. Toró, Zoltán Zakariás and Gyula Zatykó

In his opening speech, the party chairman said: a year ago, the EMNP managed to obtain mayor's offices in places where this had not been the case before, and as a result of an agreement with the Romanian Hungarian Democratic Union (RMDSZ), it managed to send a representative to the lower house of the Romanian parliament. "We have finally managed to eradicate the division of the Transylvanian Hungarian national side, and with the establishment of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ), political unity within the national side will finally be restored," he declared.

After the cleanup, István Csomortányi expressed his hope that the court will soon register the merger of the EMNP with the Hungarian Civil Party (MPP) and the resulting joint party, the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ). Until then, the two parties will continue their cooperation within the framework of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association, which is also registered as a political association at the court.

"We are moving forward on the path of Hungarian self-determination in Transylvania, with joint strength, together for the Hungarians," the announcement quoted the elected party president as saying.

Zsolt Németh , chairman of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, and Katalin Szili, , greeted the delegates' assembly in a video message .

"With the establishment of the EMSZ, you took an important step in the direction of creating Hungarian unity in Transylvania, and during the last Romanian parliamentary election you proved that you are capable of working together - for the sake of fundamental national goals," said Zsolt Németh .

The prime minister's representative Katalin Szili reminded that, according to the Basic Law, Hungary assumes responsibility for the Hungarian communities living outside the borders. "This is now also evident in everyday life, as the support that the Hungarian state gives in the form of economic support for the preservation of culture and staying in the homeland, all serve to make this nation truly united," stated Katalin Szili .

In his message László Tőkés , the president of the Transylvanian Hungarian National Council (EMNT), considered the vocation of the EMNP to be the living conscience of Transylvanian Hungarians.

Tibor T. Toró, the founding president of the EMNP, emphasized that the People's Party has not allowed the issue of self-determination to fall off the agenda of political public discourse for ten years. He added: after the merger, this task falls to EMSZ.

As our portal also reported , at the end of September, the Bucharest court found the registration of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ) party, created by the merger of the EMNP and the MPP, to be unfounded and rejected. The leaders of EMNP and MPP stated at the time: as soon as the reasoned court decision is officially delivered to them, they will appeal against it.

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.

EMSZ candidates won the mayor's office of ten Transylvanian settlements, including two small towns in Székelyföld (Szentegyháza and Székelykeresztúr) in the Romanian municipal elections held last September. After the agreement reached with the RMDSZ, two representatives on the RMDSZ's candidate lists were sent to the Romanian House of Representatives in the December parliamentary elections.

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