On Sunday, several Romanian non-governmental organizations protested – again – in Bucharest against the assumed extension of the Hungarian community’s language rights, MTI news agency reported. Mihai Tîrnăveanu, the organizer of the rally and leader of the association called Path of the Nation, elaborated in his speech, delivered on a megaphone, that the administrative code revised last year enforces the right of Hungarians to use their mother tongue in local organs of the central administration. The demonstrators believe that such a provision is unacceptable and means that Hungarian would become the second official language in Romania.
Trilingual Nagybánya town sign defaced
It may appear repetitive, but we cannot allow for any such incident to be left unreported: Saturday night, unknown perpetrators used red, yellow and blue spray paint to deface the Hungarian – and partly the German – name of the town on the trilingual road sign for Nagybánya/Baia Mare/Neustadt in Máramaros/Maramureș County.
Hungarian language defaced on bilingual town sign in Szeklerland
The bilingual town sign of Gyergyószentmiklós/Gheorgheni -– the third biggest town in Hargita/Harghita County where 85 percent 18,000 inhabitants are Hungarian – was damaged in the dawn of Friday, January 24. The Hungarian language part of the sign was sprayed over. The same thing happened with the Gyilkos-tó/Lacul Roșu sign nearby, reported the Hargita County Police Department.
Another Hungarian town must remove Hungarian symbols in Szeklerland
Only a few weeks after the legally binding decision forcing a 97% Hungarian village’s mayor to remove the Hungarian “village hall” sign from the building of the local municipality, a similar decision was made by the Bucharest Tribunal in the case of a 90% Hungarian town in Szeklerland. According to the Tribunal’s decision, both the Szekler flag and the town flag must be removed from the flagpoles standing front of the Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tușnad Town Hall. The municipality is expected to appeal the first instance decision.
No Hungarian sign allowed in village that’s 97% Hungarian
Mayor of Csíkszentdomokos/Sândominic, a Szekler village in Hargita/Harghita County with 97% Hungarian inhabitants, is obliged by a legally binding ruling to remove the Hungarian “village hall” inscription from the building of the local municipality. According to the mayor, they will comply, but would first like to see the justification of the verdict.