Romanian Conservative Leader Threatens To Sue Hungarian Party Leader

Romania’s Conservative Party, or PC, leader Dan Voiculescu said he intends to sue Marko Bela, the head of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, or UDMR, “for repeated insults brought to Romania and for instigation to violence against Romanians living in Transylvania.”

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“I will sue Marko for the numerous insults brought against the Romanian state and for instigation to aggressiveness against Romanian citizens living in Transylvania. This is an attempt to make a clear distinction between nationalism and chauvinism, between asking for one’s legal rights and extremist manifestations, between peaceful acts and instigations to aggressiveness. I want to believe that the nationalist message and supporting the rights of a certain ethnicity are bound to have certain limits that include respecting the country and the citizens where that ethnicity lives,” Voiculescu said.

Voiculescu said that UDMR’s manifestations “have all the characteristics of a movement that defies the constitution, which is clearly stipulated in the Criminal Code, article no. 166.”

The official said Marko’s requests to institutionalize the Magyar language as an official language in Romania and the requests for cultural autonomy are sufficient arguments to bring the Hungarian leader to justice.

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