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Radical Nationalist AUR Party Targets Hungarians in Târgu-Mureș Rally

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The President of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), George Simion, marched into Târgu-Mureș (Marosvásárhely) at the head of his party and a sea of Romanian flags, where he gave a speech at an event called the Tricolor Celebration, which he used primarily to denounce the government and the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians of Romania (RMDSZ), claiming that the minority party falsely tells Hungarians to stay away from Romanians.

The timing was interesting, as just a few days earlier, his party colleague Dan Tanasă — famous for his anti-Hungarian lawsuits — had disrupted the plenary session of the Bucharest Chamber of Deputies by shouting in protest against the appointment of Csaba Asztalos as a judge of Hungarian ethnicity for the Romanian Constitutional Court, declaring that anyone who voices support for Szeklerland has no place in the Romanian Constitutional Court.

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Cristian Marchiș activist responded to Simion’s action in Târgu-Mureș in a trilingual Facebook post, in which he reminded everyone: Târgu-Mureș was once the capital of the Szekler people.

“This year, on the commemoration of the “Day of Szekler Freedom”, they were banned from marching in their former capital. Instead, George Simion’s gang, brought in by buses from outside Transylvania, was allowed to block the streets and organize a march and counter-demonstration on the city’s day. The city’s “Romanian” days” he wrote on Facebook.

So much for the equal rights of Romanian citizens. So much for the rights of one of the oldest attested ethnic groups in Transylvania and on the territory of present-day Romania,”

he emphasized.

“The message is quite clear: long live all the ethnic Romanian Orthodox Christian citizens of Romania! The rest of us seem to be second-class citizens. We are not allowed to participate in peaceful commemorations on the land of our ancestors…” he concluded.

Despite George Simion recently becoming the new darling of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR), a center-right political faction in the European Parliament, his AUR party remains firmly rooted in hardcore anti-Hungarian rhetoric.

Via Mandiner; Featured photo: Facebook/George Simion





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