The Hungarian Prime Minister's speech in Tusványosi was apropos.
speech in Tusványosi is still being used by some Romanian politicians, who are probably trying to draw attention to themselves: now Alexandru Muraru, the representative of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from Iasi county, is trying to exploit the potential of keeping the Hungarian topic on the agenda.
Muraru announced that he reported the Hungarian Prime Minister to the National Anti-Discrimination Council (CNCD) because of the speech that some people called racist.
The representative believes that Orbán made "racist" and "xenophobic" statements.
To support this, he cited the part of the speech in which Orbán explained that the peoples living in the Carpathian Basin are not of mixed race, but a mixture of the peoples living in their own European home. "And when the stars are lucky and the wind is good, these peoples also merge in such a Hungarian-Pannon sauce, creating a new European culture of their own. That's why we always fought. We are willing to mix with each other, but we don't want to become mixed race," the quote reads.
According to Muraru, the speech "draws on racial ideologies that claimed millions of lives in the 20th century."
However, Orbán clarified ,
he talked about the effects of immigration in cultural rather than racial terms,
and he also added: sometimes he expresses things in an ambiguous way.
Muraru's denunciation is hardly worth much other than making news.
Csaba Asztalos, the president of the anti-discrimination council, had already indicated :
since the Hungarian Prime Minister enjoys diplomatic immunity, the CNCD has no authority to act on the matter.
Although according to Muraru, Orbán was present in Transylvania as a private person, not in his capacity as prime minister, and therefore does not deserve immunity, the validity of his argument is questionable.
Asztalos indicated that anyone can file a complaint, but the anti-discrimination council will first examine whether it has the authority to act on the case.
Apparently there isn't.
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