Unbelievable: Romanian president aggressively attacked Hungarians living in Transylvania – here is the answer of the foreign ministry

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said in an interview earlier this day that the social democrats (PSD) want to give Transylvania back to Hungary and asked PSD leader Marcel Ciolacu what Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán promised them in return. Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó replied that President Iohannis should show more respect to Hungarians. The reason for the whole issue is almost falling in the category of tragicomedy. Details below.

Hungarians living in Romania (mostly in Transylvania) already know that the Romanian political elite uses them and the fight for their rights in their domestic skirmish. However, Klaus Iohannis’s yesterday assertions are unique since he is the acting president of the country. To start with, he is a national liberal politician who was reelected in 2019, but he does not have a parliament majority which belongs to the social democrats. Even though polls suggest that PSD would not gain a majority again in the Romanian parliament, they were not able to hold an early parliamentary election yet. Therefore, he uses every opportunity to slam PSD.

It happened the day before yesterday that the chamber approved a draft law of deputies because the body was not able to discuss it in time. The “problem” was that it was the autonomy statute of the so-called

Szeklerland which is a region in Central-Romania where almost 700 thousand Hungarians live in a block

but official Romania does not acknowledge it. Leaders of the PSD immediately cleared that they would not support it in the Senate so it will be killed in short. However, the Romanian president pounced the issue immediately.

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