Romanian nationalists to Orbán: ‘Transylvania Romanian land forever’

Romanian nationalists in Băile Tușnad would send a message to Viktor Orbán during the Tusványos Festival by waving Romanian flags, saying that “Transylvania is always Romanian land”.

The Orthodox Brotherhood posted a video of this on Saturday on one social media, Transtelex reports. The organisation’s leader, Dan Grăjdeanu, urged its members “not to be cowards” and to go to Băile Tușnad on Saturday 22 July, when Viktor Orbán will give a speech, and wave Romanian tricolours, thus signalling that “Transylvania will always remain Romanian land”.

“Let’s not be cowards, there is no danger, the place will be full of gendarmes and no one will hurt us for waving flags in our own country,” Grăjdeanu encourages his fellow citizens in the video.

On Monday, Mihai Tîrnoveanu, the leader of the Nemzet Útja (Path of the Nation), echoed the call. He said that “on Saturday in Băile Tușnad, we will need Romanian arms to hold the flags in front of Viktor Orbán”. He recalls that last year, him and a companion attended the event and held up a banner reading “Something is eternal: Transylvania, Romanian land!” (see Featured image), for which they were booed, shouted at, spat on, and Orbán even compared them to drug addicts, even though they “were gentle”, as Tîrnoveanu recalls. According to the man, it was then that they agreed to return to Băile Tușnad this year and would no longer be “alone”.

According to Transtelex, after the incident, Tîrnoveanu called on the Romanian Presidency and the government to ban Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “private visits” to the Romanian state, as they are in fact political in nature and have objectives that seriously violate the Romanian Constitution.