He criticized the Gypsy political theses of the opposition alliance. Péter Jakab's party was not even invited to the Budapest forum.
On Friday, the organization 1Hungary Initiative sat the civil experts and politicians who signed the 1Hungary Declaration at a table to discuss the one-and-a-half-page draft program on the situation of the Roma drawn up by the six-party opposition cooperation, reports Mandiner based on Mérce.hu .
According to the portal, "Will the Roma decide the elections?" on the discussion forum
Roma civil experts strongly criticized the views of the opposition alliance on Roma politics.
The host of the event, Béla Rácz, explained why the Jobbik politicians were not invited to the event as follows: on the one hand, Jobbik did not sign the Declaration signed by the six opposition parties and more than forty NGOs in 2019, and on the other hand
the organizers experienced no substantial change in Jobbik's policy.
According to Rácz, "I don't see any gesture from Jobbik that would appease the Roma community" .
Károly Búza, one of the Roma civil experts invited by the organizers, spoke "Jobbik question" He told me that
"We are afraid, we are afraid of Jobbik,
because everyone remembers when people from Jobbik marched in settlements inhabited by Roma" . Búza added that fears and threats are still decisive today: "Roma are portrayed as criminals, they portray us as parasites."
Opposition politicians also spoke
According to Mérce Olivio Kocsis-Cake admitted that there is still a lot of work to be done with the program. Regarding Jobbik, he said that "You should ask Jobbik when they apologize" to the Roma.
Anna Donáth noted that "cooperation does not mean that everyone agrees on everything and takes responsibility for everything", but rather that "we add up what we have and jointly undertake something, with which we replaced a government that made anti-Gypsyism its basic narrative" .
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