US EditionProtesters in Budapest Call for Minister’s Resignation Over Controversial Remarks
More than 1,000 Roma protesters demanded Minister János Lázár's resignation after his remarks likening Roma to a labor reserve sparked accusations of racism.
- Over 1,000 protesters, including many from Hungary's Roma community, rallied in Budapest demanding the resignation of János Lázár over comments some deemed racist.
- Lázár described the Roma as a labor reserve for undesirable jobs, inflaming tensions ahead of elections scheduled for April 12.
- Lázár issued a public apology, stating his comments were misinterpreted, but critics felt he suggested Roma were not full members of the nation.
- The governing Fidesz party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, faces significant challenges in the upcoming April 12 election after Lázár's controversial remarks.
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Several hundred people demonstrated on Saturday 31 January in Budapest. Some had in their hands the emblematic flag of the Roma, others were holding brushes to clean the toilets. A way to protest the words of the Minister of Transport, who said that the Hungarian Roma would be an ideal workforce to clean the trains. Scandalized, many personalities, Roma and non-Roma, published selfies, a toilet broom by hand.
A few hundred people gathered on Saturday in Budapest, on a musical basis of the Roman ethnic background, to ask for the resignation of the Hungarian minister of transport after his Roman declaration, which should – according to him...
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Hungarian Roma protest inflammatory comments by Orbán government minister
Over a thousand protesters, including many from Hungary's Roma community, have held a demonstration in Budapest where they demanded the resignation of a prominent government minister over comments seen as racist.
Before the anti-war rally of the Digital Civic Circles in Hatvan, Fidesz's communications director Balázs Gulyás, a journalist for the left-liberal Gulyáságyú Média, gave an interview. In the interview, Tamás Menczer responded in detail to the tension deliberately created by the left-liberal side around János Lázár's previous statement.
The government and its party, which are preparing for the election campaign, held an anti-war rally on Saturday, this time in the city of Hatvan. Since the campaign tour follows a relatively well-established script, the biggest question before this week's event was how Viktor Orbán and his community would try to appease, if at all, the Roma massacre that János Lázár committed in Balatonalmádi – or if they would try to regain control of the campa…
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