And Europe and the last Sunday sedged off when it was published that the Novi President Romania was the mayor of Bucharest and Liberal Proevropljanin Nicuşor Day. But it is still more interesting that it is most likely to be crucial for this salvation democracy in this country: voices of ethnic Hungarians in Romania and Moldovans with dual citizenship.
The day received more than 500,000, perhaps 700,000 votes – therefore almost the entire advantage of 830,000 votes before anti-cultivates, the Nationalist George Simiion.
Especially interesting are the votes of Hungarians in Romania: They are a national minority in that country since the disintegration of Austro-Hungaria after the First World War, when the Transylvania belonged to Romania. Today there are about a million of them, which is about 5.5 percent of the population of Romania. Otherwise Romanian Hungarians are mostly faithful Followers of Viktor Orbán, but they could not believe their ears for seven days before the second round of elections, from which explicit anti-detachement statements were heard, even any violent actions of his supporters against the Hungarian minority.
Orbán was looking for too much
This is where Orbán showed that he actually cares less to Hungarians in Romania as a “great” policy and his desire to receive allies in the so-called The sovereignist camp in Europe, therefore, autocratic, through the Prorus and anti-European block. But for Hungarians in Romania Orbán’s option to vote against themselves, she was absurd – and completely ignored the Hungarian Prime Minister.
Although there are no accurate statistics on ethnic voting behavior, according to professionals such as Transylvanian Hungarians and sociologists of Nándor Magyári, the day from Romanian Hungarians received about 550,000 to 600,000 votes. “Romanian Hungarians thus voted for the preservation of liberal democracy and the continuation of the Euro-Atlantic road Romania.” Moreover, there were records: in the Romanian Canton of Harghit, where 85 percent of the population consists of ethnic Hungarians, as many as 91 percent of voters voted for NICUŞOR DAYS, which is the highest score in all Romania.
And the Democratic Association of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), the Romanian Hungarian party, changed the course abruptly. Since 1996. He almost continuously participates in the governments of Romania and has done a lot for reconciliation of Romania and Hungary. But the Orbán in recent years is less and less hiding their preference to some great Hungarian with a well-known thesis that Hungary goes back all the way to where Hungarians live – therefore a good part of Romania.
Political turn and the Hungarian parties
Such nationalist tones are not without echo: Hungary has long been offered by citizenship to their countries abroad, and they can also participate in the elections in Hungary. And with them Orbánov Fidesz regularly gets more than 90 percent votes. And the UDMR has greatly increased the Orbán pendant in recent years, but neither that party could understand Orbán’s recommendation to give the voice to the Romanian nationalist and publicly announced that they disagree.
“Orbán was wrong,” says DW former UDMR liberal politician and Transylvanian Hungarian lawyer Peter Eckstein-Kovács. “He thought Hungarians in Transylvania would swallow everything, even his global madness, but he was cheating on.” But Eckstein-Kovács does not talk about interruption between UDMR and Fidesz. “It’s a crack in relationships, not break up.” And sociologist Magyari believes how “as a whole, Orbán can still count on the support of Hungarians in Romania.”
Moldova and Romania’s border actually tailored Stalin’s red army and then it was part of the USSR. But Romanians in Moldova were not prone to some Simiion’s “great Romania”.
And Moldova’s Simiion was unacceptable
There is also an extremely interesting number of votes from the Republic of Moldova, where of approximately 2.45 million inhabitants of that state about 640,000 also have Romanian citizenship. There, the pro-European day was given about 135,000 votes – which is 88 percent of all voters who went out to the polls.
Historically, Romania’s relations and Moldova are somewhat more complex: most of the Republic of Moldova and Romanian regions used to be a common principal. In the neighboring state, three-quarters of the population speaks Romanian, so the land is sometimes called “other Romania.” Many of them live in Western European countries, but they probably voted in large numbers for Nicuşora Dana.
Because his anti-cultidate George Simiion also dreams of “great Romania” and strives to join Moldova to her “Matic”. This is obviously not popular even among the Romanians in this independent state. The more that is completely clear for Simician who would lead the main word, and the molds should only be admired. Since 2014 Simiion has a ban on entering Moldova.
Thanks to the new Romanian president
In addition, Simiion’s love for Putin is there. The Republic of Moldova, after Ukraine, is most valiereously exposed to Russian aggressive plans. In its region, the Government of the Government is the separatist regime loyal Moscow, and Russia has been trying to blackmail Moldi’s delivery for decades for decades. For their own safety reasons, Romania has long helped their neighbor to separately from Russia and resist Russian influences – for example educational programs for dual citizenship, at least that help is often slow and insufficient.
Unlike its predecessor of Klaus Iohannis, the newly elected Romanian President Nicuşor Day shows interest in the Republic of Moldova and its progress. In speech after the victory in the night at 19. May 2025. Dan explicitly thanked his Moldovan voters.
Hungarians did not thanked himself – but the day later, it still made up in one television interview and telephone calling to the UDMR leader.
(Vijesti.ba)
