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Dan Tanasă, president of ADEC: The leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) gives out false statements regarding the UDMR mayor of Corund, fined by the courthouse

Regarding the false statements given by the leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), Kelemen Hunor, at the end of the consultations held by the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, Dan Tanasă, leader of the Civic Association for Dignity in Europe (ADEC), makes the following remarks.

According to Romanian news agency Agerpres, Thursday the UDMR leader, Kelemen Hunor, stated after the consultations with Romania’s President at the Cotroceni Palace, that he brought forward the case of the mayor from Corund, Harghita county, fined because he placed a bilingual inscription on the city hall building.

“I’ve brought another subject into discussion, without waiting for an answer from mister President, there is no answer that can be given, because we are talking about a ruling of the Court of Appeal from Târgu Mureș. I just informed the President, I don’t know if he knew the situation from Corund, Harghita county, where the mayor received a fine amounting to 80,000 euro, a very large amount, disproportional with any administrative act, for the placement of the bilingual inscription on the front of the city hall building. I believe that this is an absolutely disproportionate and wrong decision to both the mayor and the community, but also to the legislation, which allows bilingual signs in localities where ethnic minorities are more than 20% of the population”, Kelemen Hunor said.

Regarding this subject, Dan Tanasă, president of ADEC, makes the following remarks:

”The association I lead is the one that filed the suit against the UDMR mayor of Corund, which broke the law. The fact that the UDMR mayor in Corund is breaking the law was settled, with a final decision, by the courthouse, not by the ADEC president. Furthermore, the courthouse and not the ADEC president, decided to fine the UDMR mayor in Corund. Mr. Kelemen Hunor is giving out false statements regarding this case with the sole purpose of inciting the hatred of the Hungarian community in Romania against me and against the judiciary system in Romania. In reality, the UDMR mayor in Corund was fined by the court for the refusal to execute a final decision, not because he placed a bilingual inscription on the city hall building. Initially, the UDMR mayor in Corund placed an inscription specific for the administrative system of Hungary on the city hall building. ADEC filed a suit against the mayor, and the court ordered the UDMR representative to remove the Hungarian inscription “Kozseghaza” from the city hall building. Because the mayor refused to do this, the court fined the mayor and ordered him to pay penalties to ADEC. If the mayor would have placed the inscription “Polgarmesteri Hivatal” on the city hall building, he would have acted according to the law. Moreover, if he would have followed the initial court decision, he would not have paid a single leu as fine. In Romania, the execution of the final decisions of the court is mandatory for all citizens, no matter the ethnicity, even for Romanian citizens of Hungarian ethnicity. I strongly condemn the irresponsible actions of UDMR leader, Kelemen Hunor, who incites for inter-ethnic hatred against me, and gives out statements which affect the independence of the rule of law in Romania. The rule of law is sacred everywhere in Europe. It should be the same in Romania”.

FOTO: Dan Tanasă, by Florin Eșanu

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