The Bucharest Court of Appeal considered the appeal of the Hungarian Civil Party (MPP) to be unfounded and on Friday rejected the registration of the merger of the MPP and the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party (EMNP).
The summary of the judgment was published on the portal of Romanian courts. Previously, the Bucharest Court rejected the registration of the merger of the two small Transylvanian Hungarian parties because, as the parties announced, they wanted to register the official name of the new party in both Hungarian and Romanian. EMNP and MPP - after learning the reasons for the first instance decision - called the refusal to register the merger absurd and unacceptable in a joint statement.
"All this is absurd and unacceptable only because the names of the two parties that initiated the merger and were already registered by the court also include their Hungarian names, and in the case of the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party, the Hungarian official name is the first, not the Romanian one," he said . in their statement.
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 with the RMDSZ, two representatives on the RMDSZ's candidate lists were sent to the Romanian House of Representatives in the December parliamentary elections.
Source: MTI
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