Jobbik demands autonomy for Transcarpathia minorities

The radical nationalist Jobbik party has demanded that full territorial autonomy be granted to the Hungarian and Ruthenian minorities in Transcarpathia, in western Ukraine, MP Márton Gyöngyösi said on Monday. Jobbik also called on the international community to pressure the interim leaders of Ukraine to stop the draft for military service that has started in Transcarpathia, Gyöngyösi, the party’s deputy group leader, said. He demanded that minorities be ensured their right to use their mother tongue and human rights be guaranteed in the neighbouring country. In Jobbik’s view the interim leaders of Ukraine are illegitimate because they have not taken their positions as a result of a sovereign
decision by the people of Ukraine, he said.