“Integration without collective rights and autonomy is the hotbed of assimilation,” said László Tőkés, an ethnic Hungarian politician in Transylvania. The former bishop urged the Hungarian government to support Hungarian autonomy efforts in Transylvania and urged the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) to use its position to win the support of the parliament for this cause. Speaking at the Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp in the resort town of Băile Tușnad (Hungarian: Tusnádfürdő), he said that the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis accused his opponents of “planning to provide wide-ranging autonomy to Szeklerland and handing over Transylvania to the Hungarians.”
Last year, Hungarian President Viktor Orban also addressed the Băile Tușnad camp which is located in the centre of modern Romania – with a rousing speech  about Hungary’s future and the future of European nations, best summarised by Hungary Today: https://hungarytoday.hu/viktor-orban-sets-out-his-vision-on-hungarys-future-in-a-decade-of-conflict/
Since the Treaty of Trianon handed swathes of Hungary’s territory to neighbouring countries, the status of ethnic Hungarians in Romania has been a contentious issue. The communist authorities were initially generous with territorial concessions, creating an Autonomous Magyar Region within Romania – but this was abolished under the Ceaușescu, when Romania’s regime took on a more nationalist bent. Szekely Hungarians – who form a strong numerical majority in Baile Tusnad and other towns, have continued to be a political football since democracy in the 1990’s – their plight recognised in Hungarian elections (in which they vote), their differences in Romanian elections.
As well as a cultural figure among Szekely Hungarians in Romania, Tőkés was a well-known critic of the Ceaușescu regime and played a significant role in the Romanian revolution. Crowds gathered in Timisoara (Temesvár), when the communist authorities attempted to evict him from his flat as a leader of the reformed church in Romania.