Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania "I think the basic treaty with Hungary should be amended to introduce a reference to the possibility of creating the legal framework of autonomy for national communities, specifically for Hungarians." This political organization is closely associated with the European MP László Tőkés, who was described by the president Tibor Toró as "the mentor of the party". Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania The Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (; ) is a political party of the Hungarian minority in Romania. It was founded in 2011. It positions itself as an alternative to the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, the largest
History of Transylvania 895. This is supported by an eleventh-century Russian tradition that the Hungarians moved to the Carpathian Basin by way of Kiev. However, according to Florin Curta no evidence exists of Magyars crossing Eastern Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania. According to supporters of the Daco-Roman continuity theory, Transylvania was populated by Romanians at the time of the Hungarian conquest. Opponents of this theory assert that Transylvania was sparsely inhabited by peoples of Slavic origin and Turkic people. The year of the conquest of Transylvania is unknown; the earliest Magyar artifacts found in the region date to the first half of the 10th