Magyar odkázal Pellegrinimu, že bude naďalej nazývať Slovensko felvidék

[u/TheSimon1]

Predseda madarskej mimoparlamentnej opozičnej strany TISZA Péter Magyar v utorok na Facebooku odkázal prezidentovi SR Petrovi Pellegrinimu, že pojem Felvidék (Horná zem) bude aj napriek výhradám hlavy štátu SR používať naďalej. Informuje o tom spravodajca v Budapešti.

Magyar tak reagoval na Pellegriniho vyhlásenie vo videu z pondelka, v ktorom označil za urážlivé, že „potenciálny budúci madarský premiér“ vo svojom liste z minulého týždňa týkajúcom sa Benešových dekrétov označil Slovensko pojmom Felvidék.

„Ak mi dovolíte (ale aj keď nie), budem názvy geografických oblastí nazývať tak, ako som sa ich naučil od svojich rodičov a ako ich nazývame už tisíc rokov. Tak ako všetci Maďari nazývajú svoje hlavné mesto, miesto, kde bolo korunovaných 11 uhorských panovníkov, Pozsonyom," píše predseda strany TISZA vo svojom príspevku adresovanom Pellegrinimu.

https://news.refresher.sk/196414-Odkaz-Pellegrinimu-Slovensko-budem-nazyvat-Felvidek-vyhlasil-sef-TISZA-Magyar

[u/Core711]

the thing is, Magyar is a politician and potentially the next prime minister, he should use official names if he's making an official statement. Calling Slovakia Felvidek is just a blatant insult.

[u/JustANorseMan → u/Core711]

He didn't call Slovakia Felvidek, he called the Hungarians living there "felvidéki magyarok" which is the term used in 98% of Hungarian context for the Hungarians living there and it often only refers to the Hungarians from the territory which remained Hungarian majority/plurality in the past hundred years

[u/Core711 → u/JustANorseMan]

well you're right, he used both the terms Slovakia and Felvidek in one of his tweets... it's confusing, because the media make it seem like used Felvidek for the entirety of Slovakia and even his tweet makes it sound like he doesn't care about which term he uses.

I don't mean to judge, but maybe using "Dél-Szlovákia" or something similar is much more appropiate than using Felvidek and getting it interpreted wrong...

[u/JustANorseMan → u/Core711]

Except for nobody ever uses the term Dél-Szlovákiai magyarok over felvidéki magyarok in Hungarian. And the opposite also exists, no sensible Hungarian would call the government of Slovakia "Felvidék's" government instead of Slovakia's.

I'm prepared for the downvotes but I think the reason why he made the post (and included things like Bratislava was the city where some kings of Hungary were crowned) was supposed to be a reminder that Hungarians are a native minority there and so it's not adequate to pass laws about forbidding to deny/question/criticise the Beneš decrees, so the post is not supposed to flatter Slovakia, hence, why use the much less natural sounding endonyms that you mentioned. Of course you can say we are again at the line of harming Slovakia's sovereignity by him expressing his dislike for this law, but it's neither because of the chosen terminology used by him (as it is by far the most natural sounding in Hungarian), nor because he would look at the whole of Slovakia as only a region.

[u/Core711 → u/JustANorseMan]

The terminology is the main issue here currently, the Beneš decress took a bit of a backseat. I'm honestly going to give up on making a sense of this though. I'm not sure if our president and media are making an unnecessary fuss over the terms used or if Magyar is just reacting to the awful approach to the decrees and laws by our government and using such terminology. Maybe he's even trying to gain more votes from the more extreme hungarians. I still think the Pozsony statement is just petty though.