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Hungary’s general election proved that “the motherland can count on the members of Hungarian communities beyond the border” and vice-versa, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), in north-western Romania, on Thursday.
Hungary’s ruling alliance of Fidesz and the Christian democrats received a record number of votes in the April 3 election, giving them a record number of seats in parliament, Szijjártó told a press conference held jointly with Hunor Kelemen, head of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ). Szijjártó said the election had decided not just the fate of Hungary but that of the entire nation, adding it had therefore been important to the government that all Hungarians take part in it. He said that whereas this stance was natural for the “nationally minded Christian civic side”, the left represented the complete opposite view, and had always wanted to
exclude Hungarians living beyond the borders from the nation’s shared decisions.
The minister welcomed that a record 318,083 mail-in votes had been cast in the election, 205,767 of which had been cast at the foreign mission accredited to Cluj-Napoca and Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda). Fidesz and the Christian Democrats received more than 251,000 of the mail-in votes, he added.
“The election showed us again that the motherland counts on the ethnic Hungarian communities living beyond the border and that they, too, can count on the motherland,”
Szijjártó said. He thanked ethnic Hungarians “for not having fallen for foul provocation attempts” such as the case of the mail-in ballots that were found dumped and partially burned in an illegal landfill near Sfantu Gheorghe (Marosvásárhely).
As regards bilateral ties, Szijjártó said Hungary had an interest in
building the strongest possible cooperation with Romania,