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Historical moment: One millionth ethnic Hungarian takes oath of citizenship
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“We are now celebrating the unity of our political nation,” President János Áder said in his address at the ceremony in which the one millionth ethnic Hungarian was granted Hungarian citizenship under the government’s dual citizenship programme, in Budapest on Saturday.
The ceremony in the presidential Sándor Palace, in which Vojvodina farmer Miklós Lajkó and his wife took their oath of citizenship, was attended by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and House Speaker László Kövér.
Lajkó and his wife “have shown us what being Hungarian means;
they wanted to be Hungarian citizens because they consider themselves as Hungarian, their mother tongue is Hungarian, they went to a Hungarian school and their ancestors were Hungarian”.
“We, in the mother country, should do no more than thank them for all that, thank them for preserving the faith and love of the homeland from generation to generation; for loving in Hungarian, working in Hungarian, speaking Hungarian to their children and having Hungarian dreams,” the president said.
I Was one of these Hungarians… i became Hungarian now, in Out23. I apply from Brazil, because my family was hungarian. I was very very very grateful, and very proud of my homeland. Isten áldd meg a Magyart!