As many of the researchers of the question pointed out, the history of the political representation of Hungarians from Romania after 1989 can be separated into three distinct periods, from the formation of a homogenous representation, through the institualization of an internal opposition and the later marginalization of these groups, to the period of pluralization, where new concurrent political actors appear. Despite these unfolded stages, few of the researchers have focused systematically on the formation of the political representation, and the main discourses of this period and even fewer formulated a plausible hypothesis about why and how the development of the political representation changed in the aforementioned way. The paper focuses on the following question: What are the main causes behind the selected strategies of minority politics in the case of the Hungarian political elite from Romania? What is the most proper analytical framework to address this question? In order to answer these questions, the main objectives of the paper is to present a hypothesis, how the the development of the Hungarian public sphere from Romania can be analyzed, focusing on the main debates of the early 90’s, presenting the actors and the power-relations between them. Moreover, it will approach critically the discourses of the period, presenting their characteristics. Furthermore it states that the main stakes and interests behind these discourses and debates are the “building” and “development” of the Hungarians from Romania as a community/group, addressing not only the inner structures of it, but the possible institutional solutions of the minority politics as such.
