Keywords: Hungarian minority; Hungarian Party; Bernády; mayor; politics. György Bernády had an important role in the Romanian politics, representing the Hungarian minorities, and was a founding member, of the Hungarian Party His political ambitions were strictly connected to the ideology which supported the Romanian liberals, and this was accepted only by a small group within the Hungarian Party.
Bernády almost became the president of the Party, but was ultimately rejected because of his political views. In the first free elections, he was one of the few Hungarians, who had been elected to be a member of the Romanian parliament, and also, he was the first Hungarian who gave a speech.
His actions he joined an inside-party reform-movement eventually ended up in him leaving the Hungarian Party These events gave him more opportunity to focus on city-governing, as he was elected again after several years mayor of Marosvásárhely.
His career as a mayor ended soon, because of the Romanian administration, which made it impossible for him to act as needed — He is remembered for playing an important role in the urbanization of Marosvásárhely, however, more research is needed to judge and conclude his political activity. Keywords: Principality of Transylvania; jurisdiction; Tripartitum; parliamentary resolutions.
The jurisdiction of the Principality of Transylvania evolved as a result of a process which lasted many decades, side by side with the state, uniting the characteristics of the pre-Mohács Hungarian Kingdom and the novel characteristics of the new state.
