Jobbik: Romania has so far failed to grant freedom of Hungarians

Press release – As the 99th anniversary of Transylvania’s official attachment to Romania and the Romanian memorial day was approaching, the head of Jobbik’s national policy cabinet called upon the Romanian state to live up to the promises of freedom for Hungarians, as made by the National Assembly in Gyulafehérvár (Alba Iulia) on December 1, 1918.

In his Thursday press conference held in front of Romania’s Budapest Embassy, István Szávay recalled the provisions of the National Assembly Resolution, for example, that the nations comprising the country were given total national freedom, each nation had the right for public administration, education and jurisdiction in their own respective native language as well as a proportionate representation in the country’s legislation and government.

The politician noted that Romania had thus far failed to live up to these promises. “Native language use has not been fully implemented in public administration and the Romanian state keeps launching attacks on Transylvanian Hungarian education and the judicial system functions only in the Romanian language,” he emphasized.

“To this day, Romania still treats the nearly 1.5 million Hungarians as second-class citizens while it keeps blocking Szekler autonomy efforts, too,” he summarized.