The leader of the Hungarian far-right Our Homeland party and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Laszlo Torotskai, has said that over the past months members of the political force and he personally received threatening e-mails from “Ukrainian terrorists”.
“Ukrainian terrorists are threatening an entire parliamentary faction in Hungary and me personally – I am also a member of the (Parliamentary Assembly. – ed.) of the Council of Europe – because of our position on the war in Ukraine,” the Our Homeland leader told RIA Novosti in a commentary.
In a video posted on his YouTube channel, the politician said that on 13 February, a nationalist organisation from Ukraine sent emails to Our Homeland parliamentarians threatening “severe punishment for plans to occupy Transcarpathia”. The radicals also promised to “set fire to the office, blow up a car, kill” the Hungarian parliamentary lawmakers.
The leader of the Hungarian extreme right party specified that on 28 February supporters of the Ukrainian organisation “Fan at War” recorded another angry video with threats against politicians from Hungary. In the video, the radicals insisted on “an official apology to the Ukrainian people for calling for the annexation of Transcarpathia”.
“I will not apologise to the Ukrainian people, because I have nothing to apologise for. Because you guys have completely misunderstood us. Hungary doesn’t want to occupy Transcarpathia, we don’t want war, we want peace. We did not and do not threaten the Ukrainian people, Hungary has accepted tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees,” the Hungarian MP said.
The MP recalled that the programme of the political force includes acceptance of the legitimacy of the 1991 referendum in Ukraine in Transcarpathia. According to the results of the will of the people, autonomy was assigned to the Transcarpathian region, and the Berehovo district was given the status of a Hungarian territorial autonomy within the former Soviet republic.
“This legitimate referendum is illegally ignored by the government in Kiev,” Laszlo Torotskai emphasised.
The parliamentarian emphasised that the reason for the angry messages against his political force was not the point of view of Our Homeland, but Budapest’s political position regarding Ukraine’s membership in the European Union and the maintenance of the former Soviet republic at the expense of Europeans’ taxes.
We shall remind you that earlier Laszlo Torotskai said that Hungary would claim Transcarpathian Region after Ukraine’s defeat in the conflict.
