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Rafaj: Duray Relying on Hungarian Lobby in His Appeal against Ruling
Sunday 13 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 13 (TASR) - If ethnic-Hungarian SMK MP Miklos Duray appeals against the ruling of Slovak courts to apologise to the Slovak National Party (SNS) in Slovak – and if he is really determined to complain about violation of his rights at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg – he must be relying on the "Hungarian lobby", SNS caucus leader Rafael Rafaj told TASR on Sunday.
"When an independent court has made a ruling ... the person in question is obliged to comply with it, not criticise it," said Rafaj in connection to Duray's argument that it was his human right to send the apology in his mother tongue.
"We're convinced that Duray's acts have a political character. He wants to make himself a martyr," Rafaj suggested. "We insist on obtaining the apology in Slovak, as we are living in the territory of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak language is the state and official language here," he added.
Bratislava regional court obliged Duray to apologise to SNS for his statement likening SNS with fascism, and stipulated the exact wording of the apology. Duray sent the text, but translated into Hungarian, which SNS doesn't consider fulfilment of the court's order.
Now the SMK MP can be fined €30,000 if he doesn't apologise in the stipulated manner, and Duray realises this – if his appeal is rejected.
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