Hungarian National Council of Transylvania

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.

Hungarian National Council of Transylvania
Erdélyi Magyar Nemzeti Tanács / Consiliul Național al Maghiarilor din Transilvania
TypeNGO
HeadquartersOradea
Region served
Transylvania
LeaderLászló Tőkés
Websiteemnt.org

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
  1. Julien Danero Iglesias, Nenad Stojanović, Sharon Weinblum, New Nation-States and National Minorities: A Comparative Perspective, ECPR Press, 2013, p. 254
  2. Dr James W Scott, De-coding New Regionalism: Shifting Socio-political Contexts in Central Europe and Latin America, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012, p. 240
  3. Myra A. Waterbury, Between State and Nation: Diaspora Politics and Kin-state Nationalism in Hungary, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 165
  4. Roger A. Coate, Markus Thiel, Identity politics in the age of globalization, FirstForumPress, 2010, p. 91
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