The Senate has voted in favor of a law protecting the right to tuition in minority languages, the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) has announced. The law protects the educational system for minorities, as the government cannot dissolve grades or regroup pupils without the approval of political representatives of the affected minority.
According to the announcement, the grades part of the tuition in minority languages can be dissolved only with the approval of the State Secretariat for Minorities, the Ministry of Education, the Education Committee working under the Department for Interethnic Relations, or the political representatives of the affected minority.
“This law gives protection to education in Hungarian,” Sen. Csaba Zoltán Novák, the vice president of the upper house’s education committee, commented.
The law was originally voted in last year in June, but the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, sent it back to Parliament, objecting to parts of the wording of the proposed law. Now, the law has been voted in once again by the Senate, so it should arrive on the table of the President for the second time. Apparently there are no further roadblocks ahead for this law to be announced by Mr. Iohannis.
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