“Hungary is supporting Romania’s bid for membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) following a promise from Liviu Dragnea, President of the Romanian government’s leading Social Democratic Party (PSD), to solve the situation with the school in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș)”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI on Saturday.
The party’s leader spoke to Hungary’s Prime Minister and President of Fidesz Viktor Orbán by telephone and promised to find a solution to the situation, he explained.
President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania Hunor Kelemen has also been consulted with relation to the decision, he indicated.
In early September, the Mureș County school supervisory authority suspended the operations of the Hungarian language catholic school, as a result of which the Hungarian Government announced that it will be vetoing Romania’s bid for membership of the OECD in view of the termination of the school’s legal status.
Romania’s anti-corruption prosecution office began investigating the circumstances surrounding the 2014 founding of the Roman Catholic High School last October, and on Thursday officially charged former chief school supervisor Stefan Somesan and the schools former director Zsolt Tamási.