A miracle has happened! Hungarian words were spoken in the Romanian parliament!

Dear readers, Hungarians in Transylvania, beyond the border and around the world: a miracle has happened that no one expected. While all over the world the sovereigntist-vaccinated, nationalism-condensed, malice-spiced stupidity and idiocy is raging, Romania has taken a step forward on the European path — such a big one that we couldn't catch up even with seven-league boots. What happened is something that in 2026 no one would have dared to bet a single worn-out penny on — if we still had pennies left instead of lei, and had lei to spare after the VAT hikes and tax and duty increases also supported by the RMDSZ [Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania]. What happened is that Hungarian words were uttered in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. In fine Hungarian. And the ceiling stayed in place.

The RMDSZ submitted some sort of legislative amendment according to which the language of minority Hungarians could also be used in localities where our proportion does not reach twenty percent. This is, of course, as pointless as being a Romania expert as a Budapest resident originally from Baia Mare, when not even the greatest Romanians understand this mysterious land — but let's not look this gift horse in the mouth, and instead rejoice, because the rules on Hungarian language use aren't followed even where the proportion of Hungarians is one hundred percent. Let's stay on topic, though: Hungarian words were spoken in the Chamber of Deputies, even though we've known since Hunor's time that there, we're far from even a much smaller percentage than twenty; we barely scrape together five if we all join forces and everyone stamps for the tulip. But back to the topic — why does my attention, my anger and my sense of justice keep dragging me toward cynicism? I don't even understand it myself, since Hungarian was spoken in the Romanian chamber of deputies.

During the debate on the legislative amendment, none other than Dan Tanasă spoke up — the sworn enemy of the Hungarian language and an excellent friend of Moscow (the cognitive dissonance is best explained by Viktor Orbán in the voice of Ottó Gajdics) — so Dan Tanasă said, in Hungarian:

"This isn't Hungary. This is Romania. OK?"

True, these weren't meant as words to soothe our souls, but we're used to not looking a gift horse in the mouth by now. We never even hold our one-party representative accountable, for whom every day is a gift, what we as Hungarians still get to experience — we shall weep a silent prayer over it later, to be recited on the site of the demolished Premonstratensian church in Oradea: let us remember the righteous, ahem, ahem.

So Dan Tanasă, the man who sued Szeklerland to ruins, and not just because he saw some letters with diacritics somewhere, has now spoken Hungarian in parliament. But our scaremongering paranoia doesn't stop there: the show started being shared by RMDSZ luminaries on social media, where, posing the rhetorical question "Is it true that Dan Tanasă hates Hungarians?" to their voters, they shoved the video straight in their faces, then the lapdog media latched on, and now we're swallowing it like an underpaid roadside laborer swallows mayonnaise — at least there'll be something warm in our stomachs.

Yet we should be glad, since Dan Tanasă has been touched by the god of the Hungarians, enlightened even, and since he's already set out on the rocky road of learning Hungarian, we should help him along. We could, for instance, teach him rhymes and sayings like "Down with Trianon!" or "He left them, as Saint Paul left the Wallachians," while our Hungarian representatives are still waiting to reach the point where they might allow themselves, just once, just a single time, three Hungarian words from the podium of the Chamber of Deputies — seeing as our taxes have already been raised. How lovely it would be if Lóci Antal preached from the Senate rostrum in three words: "We're raising taxes in Szeklerland!" Doesn't one's mood instantly improve when one gets screwed over in one's own mother tongue? But in the end, we're the ones who bend down for the soap every four years, so thank you anyway, Dan Tanasă. I'm astonished, though, that no one has thought of suing this Romanian nag with his own weapon, claiming that he desecrated the lower and upper houses of the Romanian parliament, the parking lot and the restroom lady, because he spoke in the language of horses. Whom we'll shoot eventually anyway, right?

So here we are — horses, with our own language, which a Romanian Hungarian-hating Putinist is now eagerly using to put us in our place. Of course, that's not good for us either, but it's also not good when [Cătălin] Drulă posts in Hungarian, and it's simply never good, because if our own people don't speak Hungarian, then no one should.

And our own people are consistent: they don't speak Hungarian.

But let's not skip past one small yet effective manipulation technique. Transtelex, which turned this into a news story, cites its source, the online edition of the Romanian daily Adevărul. But that source also includes the fact that the sharp and truly hard-hitting reply to Tanasă came not from an RMDSZ representative, but from Alexandru Dimitriu of the USR:

„Într-adevăr, ţi se întoarce stomacul pe dos când auzi un extremist, un xenofob cum îşi bate joc de instituţia Parlamentului, cum o foloseşte ca tribună pentru a propaga ura din România. Şi nu este singurul de la AUR care face acest lucru. Sunteţi de o ticăloşie cruntă, apăraţi un criminal, pe Călin Georgescu, şi veniţi să daţi nouă lecţii. Călin Georgescu este un mafiot de ultima speţă. (...) Este anormal ca parlamentari ai României să sprijine mafia lui Călin Georgescu şi românii trebuie să vadă acest lucru.”

In English:

"It truly turns your stomach when you hear an extremist, a xenophobe, mocking the institution of Parliament like this, using it as a platform to spread hatred in Romania. And he's not the only one from AUR doing this. You are shamelessly vile — you defend a criminal, Călin Georgescu, and then come here to lecture us. Călin Georgescu is a mobster of the lowest order. (...) It is unacceptable for Romanian members of parliament to support Călin Georgescu's mafia, and Romanians need to see this."

This part, however, was left out entirely of Transtelex's report — as if all Romanians were against us, and only the heroic RMDSZ were fighting the lion single-handedly.

The proposal, incidentally, was brought before the Chamber of Deputies as a motion "pentru respingere," that is, for its rejection — it's pure luck that, thanks to a joint vote with AUR and SOS, the Alliance managed to keep its position as deputy speaker of the house. Because of this, at the vote, anyone who wanted to reject the proposal had to press YES, while anyone who wanted to advance it had to press NO. That's how the final result came about. As can be seen, of the thirty USR deputies present, twenty-nine voted for the motion, and of the thirty-four Liberals present, twenty-eight did the same. One USR deputy abstained, and two PNL deputies voted against the rejection.
This, however, wouldn't fit into the picture in which Kelemen Hunor wants to govern together with Sorin Grindeanu, so it gets no attention in the Transylvanian media space either.