In the early parliamentary elections, which were heralded as a historic success, the Association remained below the entrance threshold. A given political community can only tolerate a finite number of failures, it is not an exaggeration to say that the stakes of the current election were the survival of national-level ethnic Hungarian politics in the Highlands.  

Since 2010, the Hungarians in the highlands have tried practically all political options to obtain institutional representation, they did all this for the fifth time without success, and on September 30, they again failed to feel successful. A given political community can only tolerate a finite number of failures, it is not an exaggeration to say that the stakes of the current election were the survival of national-level ethnic Hungarian politics in the Highlands.

There are 3 main reasons for the 4.38 percent failure. In the southern, Hungarian-populated regions, the participation rate fell short of the national average. The polling companies regularly outperformed the dwarf parties with representatives who also speak Hungarian, and a part of the self-titled independent/objective press also treated the formations that are only interested in achieving political division as a real alternative.

The election results also illustrate that, in contrast to the 2010s, the main challenge to politics organized on the basis of ethnicity is no longer the mixed party that supports assimilation, but that all Slovak parties on the political spectrum are real opponents. 

In 2020, a quarter of the Hungarian voters participating in the election could vote for the Slovak party, this year this proportion is estimated to be 35-40 percent. This means 70-90 thousand people in addition to the 130 thousand who voted for the ethnic Hungarian party.

From this point of view, we have achieved a truly historic success...

While in the 90s, the Hungarians in the highlands were subjected to daily atrocities by the Slovak political majority, the Hungarians in the highlands put aside their ideological orientation and joined together to form a strong, cohesive team.

By the beginning of the 2010s, the political majority in Slovakia realized that if they did not expose the Hungarians to a direct political attack, the Hungarian community would destroy itself in the course of internal struggles, so now the Slovak parties began to look at the Hungarians in Slovakia as potential voters. Platforms were created, Hungarian candidates were launched on the lists, and a minority program was developed. Thus, in the absence of external danger, due to the prioritization of self-interest by some politicians, as well as the influence of the oligarchs, the internal differences of the community increasingly came to the surface, which the XXI. In the 20th century, not at the negotiating table, but in front of the world of the country on social networking sites, which made the voter's stomach turn.

The ideological division is becoming more and more visible within the Hungarian society in Slovakia, one of the reasons for which is the cessation of the previously experienced threat from the Slovak majority, on the other hand, the lack of formulation of common goals and the complete disregard of current events.

Due to the division in the Hungarian community in Slovakia, the fault lines experienced in the Slovak majority society are increasingly appearing, along which the majority of Hungarian voters find the Slovak parties that formulate messages for them.

Thus, it is possible that thousands of Hungarians in the Uplands supported the well-communicating, sovereignist Fico, who said what 2/3 of the Hungarian people in the Uplands wanted to hear. 

Suffering from political blindness and pressure to conform, the Association adopted a centrist, opportunistic line. It must be said that the party completely ignored 70,000 voters in exchange for the votes of 10,000 liberal citizens.

On December 9, the only Hungarian party will hold its reform congress, where the natural cycle of actions and consequences can take place.

If again, in the well-proven way, there will be no consequences for the wrong decisions of prominent politicians, if the direction of the party is still not determined, and after the fifth fall, the Alliance does not take a position on the daily events in the world, then the unsuccessful result of the next election can almost be predicted. .

Hungarians in the highlands deserve to be represented at the highest levels. It would be good if the delegates of the congress did not drive the penultimate nail in ethnic-based politicking.

Source and author: István Mácsadi / piros7.es

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