Romanian president fined by Romanian authorities because of anti-Hungarian hate speech
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The Romanian president has to pay around 1,000 EUR since the National Anti-Discrimination Council (CNCD) fined him. The decision is not legally binding, and the president already announced that he does not accept it and would turn to the competent court. Still, CNCD’s ruling is symbolic, even though it is led by Csaba Asztalos, a local Hungarian politician.
As we reported before, the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, aggressively attacked Hungarians living in Transylvania at the end of April. He said that the Romanian social democrats “are fighting to hand over Transylvania to the Hungarians.” Iohannis then raised the question of what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban “could have offered in exchange for an agreement.” He added that during the fight against the coronavirus epidemic,
PSD would like to give Transylvania to the Hungarians.
Iohannis’s party does not have a parliament majority in the Romanian parliament, which is why the president uses every issue to attack their political opponents. In this case, he even used the “good old” Hungarian card, which, sadly, is very common in Romanian domestic politics. And what is the so-called Hungarian card? Since more than 1.2 million Hungarians live in Romania, local political parties prefer to provoke ethnic Romanians with issues related to the Hungarian minority to distract their attention from economic, social, or other problems – in this case, tackling the coronavirus epidemic.
According to hvg,
the Imre Mikó Minority Rights Legal Aid Service turned to the National Anti-Discrimination Council (CNCD)
because of Iohannis’s speech, and later even social democratic parliament president Marcel Ciolacu followed them.
The CNCD decided about the issue on Wednesday and fined the Romanian president for around 1,000 EUR (5,000 RON). The decision that Iohannis is guilty of hate speech was made with a 6:1 majority while members voted about the fine 5:1.
What is the surprise? Romania wants Hungarians to leave, to die or to disappear.
I am not familiar with the history of Hungary or Romania. I do know that Transolvania, I don’t know if I spelled that right, was part of the 1100 years old Hungarian Empire, I would like to know the basis of Ramanias claim that Transolvania belongs to them after it was part of Hungary for over a thousand years.
The whole thing seems ridiculous to me, how did Hungary gain this land, was it the result of military conquest? It seem to me that in the history of man, military conquest was means to an end, to gain land. The United States became the United States because military conquest.