Speaker of Parliament Peter Pellegrini and Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán during their meeting in Budapest on March 11, 2024. (source: TASR)
Part of Slovakia had a hard time waking up to the new political reality last Sunday, but "our Hungarians" woke up easily. They got out of bed, waxed their beards, had goulash - of course, a csípős (a Hungarian word for hot, ed.) one – then they went to Sunday mass. After that, the election celebrations began under a joint portrait of Viktor Orbán and Peter Pellegrini on the wall.
This absurd picture from the life of "our Hungarians" could appear in the heads of those who currently bear a heavy heart for the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, due to Peter Pellegrini's victory in the presidential election.
Done – the culprits were found. "Analyses will take time. However, one thing can be said right away. April 6, 2024 will go down in the books as an historic (and) total failure of the Hungarian minority. After 30 years of fundamental participation in Slovak freedom and democracy, our Hungarians have lost their minds, as there is no other diagnosis for falling in love with a madman in Budapest," the Sme daily’s columnist Peter Schutz writes in his column.
This short analysis by Schutz is only as accurate and true as the naive picture described above, full of prejudice and misunderstanding of the situation of Hungarians in Slovakia.
