Anti-Hungarian hysteria has characterized most of the Romanian press for weeks. Before Katalin Novák's visit to Transylvania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest also joined in raising the mood with a statement that objected to the Hungarian President's statement regarding the representation of Hungarians across the border. The ministry expressed its criticism despite the fact that previously Romanian President Klaus Iohannis had made similar statements regarding Romanians living outside the country's borders.
On the occasion of Katalin Novák's visit, the opposition, anti-Hungarian Association for the Unification of Romanians demanded from the two largest parties of the government coalition: exclude the Romanian Hungarian Democratic Association (RMDSZ) from cooperation. In the meantime, articles are appearing more and more frequently in the Bucharest press that consider the RMDSZ a "national security threat" because it maintains close relations with the "pro-Russian" Hungarian government. Although some Romanian news portals reported a few days ago that voices within the government coalition are increasingly demanding the exclusion of the RMDSZ from the position of power due to "revisionist expressions" coming from Hungary, this issue was not discussed at the last coalition meeting. There was not a single "Hungarian case" on the table that received a lot of press coverage in recent days. According to our information, some social democrats and national liberal politicians would like to see RMDSZ outside the government, but the leaders of the social democrats and national liberals have no intention of changing the composition of the coalition.
The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.
Author: István Pataky
Photo: Noémi Bruzák ( President of the Republic Katalin Novák and Kelemen Hunor, President of the Romanian Hungarian Democratic Union (RMDSZ), Deputy Prime Minister of Romania)
