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Kalinak: Recent Comments in Hungarian Parliament Are Dangerous
Sunday 23 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
(TV Markiza, May 23, 'Na Telo')
According to Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD), statements that could be heard in the Hungarian Parliament over the past week in the debate on the proposed dual-citizenship amendment are exceptionally dangerous.
"Those statements are intimidating," said the minister on TV Markiza's politics show 'Na Telo' on Sunday, referring to certain ideas presented in the Hungarian Parliament, such as those concerning territory that Hungary lost following the Trianon Treaty, the rejection of Trianon as such, and positive views of the Munich Pact expressed by some lawmakers.
"This has to be discussed vigorously. We didn't come up with this, it started in Hungary," underlined Kalinak, describing the plans to adopt the dual-citizenship legislation as "bad".
"The situation could create some dangerous risks. Installing new citizenship status makes no sense here," said chairman of the opposition Christian Democrats (KDH) Jan Figel on the show, when asked which jurisdiction (Slovak or Hungarian) would apply to a Slovak citizen also holding citizenship of Hungary. He said that the Slovak Government should act, and called on Parliament to meet to discuss this matter. According to Figel, his party isn't opposed to the institution of dual citizenship per se, but rejects the way in which the Hungarian Parliament has chosen to pass the legislation.
Hungary's supreme lawmaking body wound up the debate on the Dual Citizenship Act on Friday, May 21. The vote is expected to take place within a few days, probably on Tuesday, May 25 - i.e. before the new government is appointed in Hungary.
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