According to the preliminary results of the Romanian census published on Friday, the loss of the population of the Transylvanian Hungarians is dramatic, the rate of loss clearly shows "the effectiveness of the silent genocide against the Hungarians in peacetime", believes the National Presidency of the Transylvanian Hungarian Association (EMSZ).

The announcement sent to MTI on Monday reminds us that, compared to the last census in 2011, the number of Hungarians living in Romania has decreased by 225,000 people, to just under one million. This means that the Hungarian part of Transylvania lost a fifth of its population in a decade.

"To give a better sense of the seriousness of the situation, the population loss is almost as if the entire Hungarian population of Hargita County, which has the largest Hungarian population, has disappeared"

- reads the announcement, which was signed by the national presidency of the EMSZ, which was formed from the merger of the Transylvanian Hungarian People's Party and the Hungarian Civil Party.

They underlined that the rate and rate of weight loss had been accelerating continuously over the past three decades, and overall, compared to the first census in 1992 after the regime change, the number of Hungarians in Romania decreased by more than 620,000.

"This means that we have lost nearly 40 percent of our community in three decades,"

and thus the number of Hungarians in Transylvania and Partium fell to the level of the 1850s. EMSZ warns that if nothing changes,

the Transylvanian Hungarians, who once formed a state, may come to the end of their history of more than a thousand years in this century.

The national presidency of the EMSZ believes that in this serious situation

the crime committed against the community is any explanation that minimizes the trouble or tries to present the result as a partial success.

It must be said directly that one million people is not a result, not a success, not a reason for joy, but a serious and alarming catastrophe.

"There can be no political gain or party interests that could make the census result even a partial success announced, so we call on all Hungarian political actors to put their own communication aspects behind the community interest, at least in this matter," the statement reads.

According to the EMSZ, the reason for the dramatic population loss is not only the poor economic situation of Hungarians compared to the national average or the lack of education, but

the general crisis of values ​​contributes at least as much,

which originates from the faulty political practice that subordinates all local and national matters, crucial to the preservation of community identity, to the success of the parliamentary elections in Bucharest and the aspects of continuous campaign communication, the announcement states.

MTI

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