Deputy PM of Hungary commemorates Rákóczi Association’s honorary chairman

The Rákóczi Association has served “through difficult but also in happier times” the objectives set under the policy towards Hungarian communities beyond the borders and its late chairman had the opportunity to see the association thrive, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told the organisation’s conference in Budapest on Saturday.

The Association, which was established in 1989, held a conference to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of József Halzl, who served as the association’s chairman from 1990 until 2018, the year he was elected its honorary life chairman.

“After 2010, the government’s policies and the Rákóczi Association’s activities found a common ground and József Halzl could witness his work bear fruit and his organisation become stronger and thrive before he died,” Gulyás said. He said Halzl had worked for the cause of community through his life.

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Halzl strongly believed that language and traditions should be decisive in Hungarian public thinking and in this spirit he developed the Rákóczi Association into Hungary’s largest civil organisation “serving perhaps the noblest mission”, he said.