The prime minister's agent, Györgyön Sepsiszent, spoke about this at the renewal meeting of the delegates of the Transylvanian Hungarian National Council (EMNT), after interpreting the thanks of Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén and State Secretary János Árpád Potápi for the role played by the EMNT in mobilizing for the Hungarian elections and collecting mail votes in Transylvania.

Katalin Szili assessed it as follows: the Hungarian nation has never been so strong, united, and determined to obtain and ensure the guarantees of peace, security, and prosperity as it is now. The prime minister's agent thanked the EMNT for steadfastly standing up for the demand for autonomy.

"This is also my message to the Romanian majority society: don't trust your politicians. Our aspiration is not about secession, but about turning into a community that can decide its own destiny based on the principle of European subsidiarity. We have to have a dialogue so that everyone understands: this is about the survival and future of a community, the identity of our children and grandchildren."

The politician criticized the minority policy in Romania, for which the city flag of Sepsiszentgyörgy and the Marosvásárhely II city flag were recently invalidated in court. Ministerial decree ordering the establishment of Ferenc Rákóczi Roman Catholic High School. "A European country that cares a little about itself should not do this," he declared.

He believed that the integration of the Hungarian community in Romania requires the recognition of collective rights in Romania. "Without collective rights, integration means nothing more than assimilation," he added. He also expressed the expectation that the Romanian constitution recognize the Hungarian community in Romania as a state-creating factor, just as the Hungarian constitution recognizes the state-creating nature of national minorities.

He believed that the next step in national policy should be to turn to the United Nations (UN) to recognize the right to preserve national identity as a fundamental human right, as it did in the case of the right to a clean and healthy environment.

"We have to turn to the global world so that if it considers the issue of identity so important, for example, in gender and LGBTQ issues, then it should also recognize the right to a national identity."

Source: MTI

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