Fidesz: National unity of dual citizenship now prevails

Setting aside the views of extremist parties, a national consensus now prevails on the issue of dual citizenship, and Hungarians beyond the borders who have become naturalised are part of the Hungarian nation in terms of public law, the leader of the ruling Fidesz party‘s parliamentary group said on Sunday. 

Commenting on the millionth ethnic Hungarian to take up citizenship in a ceremony on Saturday, Gergely Gulyás told a news conference that naturalisation had brought about a public bond between the parts of the Hungarian nation that had become separated from the motherland and the Hungarian state.

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No longer is the validity of extending dual citizenship debated, even by those who had campaigned against the move in the December 2004 referendum, he said. “It is clear that nothing said at the time to alarm people has actually come to pass,” he added.

“National unity on the issue is to be welcomed and preserved,”