2 Ukrainians from Ukraine with interesting positions on Transcarpathia were elected to the European Parliament from Hungary

2 Ukrainians from Ukraine with interesting positions on Transcarpathia were elected to the European Parliament from Hungary Victoria Kulzhenko

2 Hungarian women from Ukraine were elected to the European Parliament/Collage 24 Channel< p _ngcontent-sc95 class="news-annotation">In Hungary, a deputy was elected to the European Parliament from the Tisza party. She was a woman who was born in Ukraine and has specific views on Transcarpathia.

In Hungary in the elections to the European Parliament from the opposition party “Tysza” Gabriela Gerzheni, a native of the Transcarpathian city of Beregovo, won. She lived in Ukraine for the first 10 years of her life and then moved to Hungary.

She has memories of Ukraine from childhood

It is known that the deputy worked for a long time in the structures of the European Commission until 2021.

Her public statements about Ukraine could not be found. In 2022, in an interview with the publication of the Hungarian minority of Transcarpathia, which is available to Ukrainian media, Gerzheni spoke about the childhood years she spent in Beregovo.

She remembered the “uncomfortable brown uniform, wearing the baby star and refusing to accept anything from Hungary – for example, wrapping paper.” According to her, she studied Hungarian at school, but Russian was compulsory. In addition, the newly elected deputy said that she traveled a lot in her area, and also gathered with family and friends, “both with Hungarians and Russians and Ukrainians.”

Another MP was also elected

Victoria Ferenc became a Member of the European Parliament from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party. She also comes from Transcarpathia.

The deputy stated that with the received mandate “she will try to present the real aspirations of the Hungarians of Transcarpathia and the current difficult situation of the community to the general European public and European politicians.”

On the eve of the vote, Ferenc called for “supporting the candidates of the peace party.” Viktor Orban positioned his political force as perhaps the only one that strives for “real peace” in Ukraine and Europe.

Ferenc was born in the village of Pallo on the border with Slovakia in the local Hungarian family. She received the degree of associate professor at the Hungarian Institute in Transcarpathia. Her research interests are “problems of bilingualism” and “linguistic rights”.

It’s interesting that she speaks Ukrainian.