On December 11, the VMMSZ decided on the lifetime achievement and career awards it founded, which will be presented at the central ceremony of the Day of Hungarian Culture on January 24 in Zenta.

László Kövér, the Speaker of the Parliament, will receive the 2025 Golden Plaque of the Vojvodina Hungarian Cultural Association (VMMSZ), the organization announced on Friday.

As stated in the justification, "the organization can once again give the recognition to a person who, with his life and everyday actions, confesses and teaches that: we are the heirs of Saint István, and here, in our Carpathian country, we can only stay together and cooperate with each other - with Christian faith and with loyalty, love of nation, organization in the boundless truth of belonging".

On December 11, the VMMSZ decided on the lifetime achievement and career awards it founded, which will be presented at the central ceremony of the Day of Hungarian Culture on January 24 in Zenta.

Pursuant to the decision, cultural and community organizer Eszter Beretka Szénási, painter and graphic artist Hunor Gyurkovics, literary and cultural historian Ferenc Mák, and Ft. The work of Jenő Utasi, parish priest from Tóthfalu, community organizer, and institution founder.

Community and culture organizer Bodrogi Hajnalka of Szátka, musician and music school teacher László Dienes, folk musician Béla Micsik, local history researcher Rudolf Szedlara, and Varga Viola et al. Tibor Gazsó, folk dance teacher and married couple.

"With the recognitions, the founder acknowledges the activity and performance for the authentic custodial and creative work, the unification and formation of the Hungarian communities in Vojvodina and the Carpathian Basin, the strengthening of national unity, the enrichment of our cultural identity, and the development of national consciousness, without which our values ​​and love of values ​​would be he would have been far away, he would have been far away from his dream, his desires, his strength," read the announcement.

MTI

Cover image: László Kövér, President of the Parliament
Source: MTI/Zoltán Máthé