The Orbán Regime Intimidates Roma Community to Win the Elections

In a neck to neck electoral race 10 per cent of Roma votes are too important to lose

2 February 2022

Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

United opposition should include the Roma into their broad alliance to prevent corrupt tactics of the Fidesz government.

After 12 years of authoritarian remodeling of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, more attention should be paid to the intimidation tactics of Fidesz during the campaign. By using informal power, the ruling party created a massive system of dependencies both within the Roma political community and the electorate. The united opposition should fight for the inclusion of Hungary’s biggest ethnic minority group that remained without political representation once again. 

‘There is a saying within the Interior Ministry and even within the government that whoever is a member of the family is treated within the family ‘ — according to a leaked tape, this is what the Government Commissioner for Roma relations, Attila Sztojka told the representatives of the National Roma Self-Government (ORÖ). 

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Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Visegrad Insight Fellow

Visegrad Insight Fellow and re:constitution fellow. Political scientist and sociologist, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Vice-president of Amnesty International Hungary and a guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department of the United States. Focusing on informal power and populism in the context of Hungarian and Polish democratic backsliding.

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