According to the mayor, the trick is necessary when they are obliged to place the Hungarian inscription below the Romanian one.
"We have put back the former City Hall sign on the facade of the theater!" - writes Árpád Antal, the mayor of Sepsiszentgyörgy, in his Facebook post on Friday, showing in the shared photos that the inscription City Hall is on the tarpaulin of the building under renovation. According to Antal's post, they always respond with a "székely trick" when they are obliged to place the Hungarian inscription below the Romanian one. A year ago, the municipality of Sepsiszentgyörgy was obliged to change the order of the bilingual inscription on the facade of the Tamás Áron Theater and place the Romanian above the Hungarian.
"Every time they contact us about a sign, we always find a solution! If they oblige us to place the Hungarian inscription under the Romanian one, we will respond with Székely cunning," Mayor Árpád Antal wrote in a Facebook post on Friday, and also shared pictures of the theater building, where - on the tarpaulin pulled up for the duration of the construction - it says Városháza .
The mayor also wrote that "after the renovation of the building, the original, historical inscription on the facade will be returned".
With his entry, the mayor referred to the case when the municipality of Sepsiszentgyörgy was forced to modify the bilingual inscription on the facade of the Tamási Áron Theater.
This was stipulated by a court ruling following Dan Tanasă's litigation. At the end of February last year, mayor Árpád Antal was fined more than half a million lei for failing to amend the theater sign.
The Civic Association for Dignity in Europe filed a lawsuit against the mayor in 2019, alleging that the Romanian and Hungarian names of the troupe appear next to each other on the bilingual inscription on the facade of the Tamási Áron Theater. According to his argument, since Romanian is the official language in the country, the Romanian inscription should be placed above the Hungarian one. In 2019, the court ruled on a preliminary level, then in July 2020, that the Hungarian inscription must be placed below the Romanian one.
