Open letter related to the initiation “Let’s start to achieve the official status for the Hungarian language”
Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, 17 March 2010.℘
The media-events of the last days as well as the methods and contents of the information disseminated by different media have compelled our organization, the Civic Engagement Movement (CEMO) to formulate two open letters.
Our first open letter is addressed to the Realitatea TV and Antena 3 TV. These TVs are broadcasting in Romanian language, and during informing a large population about the latest events related to bilingualism in Romania they have shown obvious signs of lack of professional journalism and absence of politically correct attitude. These TVs have informed the public adding their disapproval about the fact that the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Béla Markó has mailed a bilingual, Romanian and Hungarian official letter to the schoolmasters of Maros/Mureş County (county in Romania populated by Romanians and Hungarians almost in equal percentages) and stating that this fact was received with revulsion by the Romanian schoolmasters and the Romanian public opinion. These TVs have additionally informed with revulsion the public about the March 15th celebrations, about the national holiday of Hungarians. Our organization has monitored only the two above mentioned televisions because; given our limited human resources we could not cover all Romanian language national media channels.
Our second open letter is addressed to Mr. Balázs Izsák and it is related to his initiation of the “Let’s Start to Achieve the Official Status for the Hungarian Language”. In this open letter we express the professional standpoint and the opinion of our organization.
In the attached documents you can read these open letters that we have written, unfortunately only in Romanian and Hungarian languages.