One month has passed since the Great March of the Szeklers. Nearly one month ago, Victor Ponta, prime minister of Romania, has promised to answer the Szeklers' demands in the spirit of the constitution, and the EU legal system. This is exactly what the participants of the March, and the hundreds of thousands of people who watched the event on television are waiting for. The event's manifesto, has been sent to the Romanian Government, to facilitate the response.

Officers of the Szekler National Council, President Izsák Balázs, Foreign Affairs Commissioner Dabis Attila, and Vice-President Márton Zoltán, met with Falah Mustafa Bakir, Foreign Affairs Minister of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan on the 15th of November in Budapest.

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