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Daily News Daily News · 19/05/2022
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Deputy PM: over 1.1 million ethnic Hungarians had been granted preferential Hungarian citizenship

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Zsolt Semjen, the candidate for deputy prime minister

Zsolt Semjén, the candidate for deputy prime minister. Photo: MTI

Zsolt Semjén, the candidate for deputy prime minister, said he would continue implementation of Hungary’s nation policy programmes, in a hearing before parliament’s national cohesion committee on Wednesday.

Semjén said the foundations of Hungary’s policy towards Hungarian communities abroad had been laid in 2010, adding that “they have proved stable”. He emphasised that the nation could only survive if all its constituents survived. That, he said, required a mother country with a strong economy and strong diplomacy, as well as ethnic Hungarian communities with an ability to maintain their national identity.

Semjen highlighted the Hungarian Permanent Conference (MÁÉRT) and the Diaspora Council.

The candidate touched upon the government’s dual citizenship programme, aimed at building “the nation’s legal unity” and said over 1.1 million ethnic Hungarians had been granted preferential Hungarian citizenship under the scheme.

Concerning the government’s economic aid to ethnic kin, Semjén said if ethnic Hungarians could not make a living in their homelands, those areas would become “empty from a Hungarian point of view”. The economic programme is aimed at preventing such a tendency, to benefit “the Hungarian economy, regions across the border and neighbouring states”, he said.

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He added

it was “evident” that the Hungarian government supported ethnic Hungarian parties, though the states they are in “may not like it”.

In another hearing, with the committee representing Hungary’s ethnic minorities, Semjén said indigenous ethnic minorities were an integral part of the Hungarian nation and constituents of the state. He said those communities contributed to “a special richness” of the Hungarian nation, adding an “asset that cannot be compared to anything else”, and pledged the government’s continued support.

The committee unanimously supported Semjén’s nomination.

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Source: MTI

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2 Comments

  1. Norbert says:
    19/05/2022 at 08:50

    Hmmm… Can we observe a little bit of Replacement Theory shining through?

  2. Dari says:
    20/05/2022 at 04:03

    When looking deeper, and at the bigger picture, I too can see Le Grand Replacement (Renaud Camus).

    Dual citizenship, all good and well, but when a government “supports” ethnic POLITICAL parties in another country, one is asking for trouble. Am I right?

    Most of us are well aware that those with a dual citizenship ( bothering to vote), overwhelmingly voted for the present government, and will probably continue to do so. Why bite the hand that feeds you.

    By all means, support the the Hungarian diaspora, give them privileges they may be deprived of. Let them feel that the Motherland loves them as much as they love their Motherland, but when it comes to “supporting” political parties in other countries, stay well clear. Why am I not surprised that there is so much tension between the Orban Government and Ukraine. And guess who is using that to his advantage?!

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