Hungarian National Council of Transylvania
| Erdélyi Magyar Nemzeti Tanács / Consiliul Național al Maghiarilor din Transilvania | |
| Type | NGO |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Oradea |
Region served | Transylvania |
| Leader | László Tőkés |
| Website | emnt |
The Hungarian National Council of Transylvania[1][2][3] (Hungarian: Erdélyi Magyar Nemzeti Tanács, EMNT; Romanian: Consiliul Național al Maghiarilor din Transilvania, CNMT) is a civic organization that represents the ethnic Hungarians of Romania. Established in 2003, its chairman is László Tőkés. The organisation intends to present, represent and move the case of Hungarian autonomy in Transylvania.
In 2009, the coalition between UDMR and Hungarian National Council of Transylvania resulted in nine percent of the votes in the European Parliamentary elections which meant three Romanian EP seats.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Julien Danero Iglesias, Nenad Stojanović, Sharon Weinblum, New Nation-States and National Minorities: A Comparative Perspective, ECPR Press, 2013, p. 254
- ^ Dr James W Scott, De-coding New Regionalism: Shifting Socio-political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 240
- ^ Myra A. Waterbury, Between State and Nation: Diaspora Politics and Kin-state Nationalism in Hungary, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 165
- ^ Roger A. Coate, Markus Thiel, Identity politics in the age of globalization, FirstForumPress, 2010, p. 91