EFA calls on all European peoples to express their solidarity with the Szeklers by supporting their march for autonomy on Sunday.

On Sunday 27th October the Hungarian-speaking Szekler people of Transylvania will march to demand autonomy for Szeklerland.

EUSKADI BURRU BATZARRA Presidentea

Mr. Balázs Izsák
President of Szekler National Council

Brussels, 24 October 2013.

The European Free Alliance (EFA) works to make the idea of a “Europe of the Peoples” a political and cultural reality at the European and international level. It is an umbrella organisation that gathers 40 progressive nationalist, regionalist and autonomist parties throughout the European Union (EU), representing stateless nations, regions, and traditional minorities in Europe.

Committee on National Cohesion

of the National Assembly

Information material
6/2010-2014. NOB. (15 October 2013)
of the Committee on National Cohesion
of the National Assembly
regarding the Grand March of the Szeklers
of 27 October 2013

As the Romanian government didn’t give any answer to the Petition adopted on The Day of the Szekler Freedom in Marosvásárhely/Targu-Mures, the Szekler National Council is going to organize a major event on the 27th of October for the cause of the Autonomy of Szeklerland and against the regionalization plans of the government, that ignores the will of the Szekler people.

Seeing the project of Romania’s administrative reform, which is hostile towards the Szekler people and violates the country's international commitments, and which aims only to eliminate the Szekler counties, the last remnants of the Szeklers' decision making institutions, the Szekler National Council calls all Szeklers, to a protesting march on the 27th of October, at Háromszék. Let us form the longest protesting march-column of all time, between Bereck and Kökös, Gábor Áron's birthplace, and the site of his death respectively. Let us gather in the designated locations, in Kökös, Uzon, Szentivánlaborfalva, the crossroads near Réty, Eresztevény, Maksa, Dálnok, Csernáton, Kézdivásárhely, Nyújtód, Lemhény and Bereck, so that the 22 march-columns can start moving towards the neighboring village at 12 o’clock, following an ecumenical worship service.

The Citizens’ Committee aimed to submit the Szekler National Council's EU citizens’ initiative was formed

Information material 5/2010-2014. NOB. (12 March 2013)

of the Committee on National Cohesion of the National Assembly

EUZKADI BURU BATZARRA - Presidentea

 Bilbao, 6 March 2013

 Mr. Balázs Izsák

President of Szekler National Council

The administrative reorganization of Romania brings the question of Szeklerland inevitably to the fore. Unfortunately the opinion leaders – politicians and journalists as well – are on the wrong way. The correct starting point should be not what the government wants, or one or another party-leader thinks, but the will of the involved local communities. In the case of Szeklerland the people who live here should be asked about what they really want. There are, and there will be politicians, who will try to convince us to accept an “achievable” solution, having in mind their own personal comfort, trying to save effort, by suggesting the community to ask for a solution that is easier to achieve. They forget and try to make us forget as well that Romania’s international commitments, the domestic and the EU-law, but also the international law says, that when delimiting an administrative unit, the will of the concerned population is to be taken into consideration.

On the 10th of March 1854, in Marosvásárhely/Targu-Mures, on the field of Postarét, three Szekler Martyrs were executed. The college teacher Bágyi Török János, the lawyer Martonosi Gálfi Mihály and Nagyváradi Horváth Károly, members of the so called Makk-conspiration tried to revive the flame of the fallen Hungarian revolution. Their goal was to reach national self-determination and they gave their lifes for it, showing an example of courage and loyalty to the posterity.

The standing committee of the Szekler National Council has met on Friday, September the 28th in Székelyudvarhely. Among other issues, the repeated rejection of Szeklerland's autonomy statute by the romanian senate was discussed. The committee decided to elaborate a detailed analysis on the reasons of rejection, and the further steps made necessary by it.

On the second day of their visit Barcelona, the Szekler National Council delegation was received by Josep Rull i Andreu, Deputy General Secretary of the CDC and Secretary of the Catalonian parliament. He informed the members of the delegation about Catalonia’s situation and perspectives. Izsák Balázs, the president of the Szekler National Council stressed again that the Szekler people supports the Catalan efforts, the creation of a free and independent Catalan state, as in a democracy, the will of the people must be respected and Spain also must accept this. Subsequently MP Mireia Canais i Botines presented to the guests the building of the parliament as well as the history and functioning of the institution.

After their visit to the Basque Country, the four member delegation of the Szekler National Council, led by president Izsák Balázs and consisting of Árus Zsolt, president of the Szekler Council of Gyergyószék, Bakk Miklos, political scientist and university professor, adviser of the President of the Szekler National Council, and Dabis Attila, the Szekler National Council’s Representative for Foreign Affairs came to Catalonia. The delegation was welcomed in the headquarters of the largest Catalan party, the CDC (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya) on September the 12th by Víctor Terradellas i Maré, the party’s secretary for international relations. Following mutual information, the prospects for cooperation were discussed, and the guests presented in detail, their ideas for the European Citizens' Initiative. Víctor Terradellas i Maré promised to study the received documents, and decide on the forms of cooperation.

Answering the invitation of the Basque National Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea), the four member delegation of the Szekler National Council led by president Izsák Balázs arrived in Bilbao. On Tuesday, september the 10th, the guests were welcommed in the party’s headquarters by president Iñigo Urkullu, board members Iñaki Goikoetxeta and Aitor Olaizola as well as external relations coordinator José Mari Etxebarria. The delegation included Árus Zsolt, president of the Szekler Council of Gyergyószék, Bakk Miklós political scientist and university professor, adviser of the president of the Szekler National Council, and Dabis Attila the Szekler National Council representative for foreign affairs.