At the start of the event, Előd Novák, a lawmaker and deputy leader of radical nationalist Jobbik, said Trianon was the biggest tragedy in Hungary’s history.

He said including the date of the treaty’s signing in a law can be thanked in large part to Jobbik’s and HVIM’s efforts.

Novák said there had been several opportunities for a revision of Trianon in the past 25 years since the democratic transition, for instance prior to Romania’s accession to the EU, which, however, had been missed.

“This has been the nation’s betrayal by the political parties of the 20th century,” he said.

Participants then marched to the Serbian embassy and from there to the Romanian embassy, chanting the slogan “Szeklerland Is Not Romania.” Gyula Zagyva, the co-president of the HVIM, said the Trianon treaty could still be revisited in his lifetime because a “geopolitical situation leading towards this has started to slowly develop.”

Under the Treaty of Trianon, signed on June 4 in 1920, two-thirds of Hungary’s territory was ceded to neighbouring countries.

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