State sec­re­tary marks the tenth anniver­sary of the Hun­gar­i­an dual cit­i­zen­ship law

State sec­re­tary for nation­al pol­i­cy Arpad Janos Potapi on Sun­day com­mem­o­rat­ed the tenth anniver­sary of the adop­tion of Hungary’s dual cit­i­zen­ship law. 

Speak­ing at an event in Bataszek, in south-west­ern Hun­gary, at a fair organ­ised by the local Szek­ler soci­ety on Sun­day, Potapi said that ten years ago a rad­i­cal change of direc­tion had tak­en place in Hun­gary, most vis­i­bly reflect­ed by the pol­i­cy for Hun­gar­i­an com­mu­ni­ties abroad. 

Since the adop­tion of the law on dual cit­i­zen­ship on May 26, 2010,   more than 1,100,000 peo­ple have been grant­ed Hun­gar­i­an cit­i­zen­ship,   Potapi said. 

This has cre­at­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty for all Hun­gar­i­ans to join the Hun­gar­i­an nation in the legal sense, he added. 

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He not­ed that the Fun­da­men­tal law had made it com­pul­so­ry for all Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ments to address the issue of eth­nic Hun­gar­i­ans liv­ing beyond the country’s bor­ders. In 2014 and 2018, Hun­gar­i­ans with dual cit­i­zen­ship were also able to vote in the nation­al elec­tions, he not­ed, adding that the Hun­gar­i­an par­lia­ment could be con­sid­ered a nation­al assem­bly as it rep­re­sent­ed the whole nation. 

Source: dai​lynew​shun​gary​.com / MTI