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- Fidesz’s László Bíró and Zsófia Koncz, who will start in Borsod on Sunday, are the most likely candidates, but there are also starters outside of them.
- The 24.hu reporter spoke with the independent Ádám Tóth, Erika Sóváriné Bukta, who is running as a candidate for the Democratic Party, and with the independent Gábor Váradi in this article.
- We interviewed Váradi, who is a member of the Roma minority self-government in Miskolc and joined the Roma national self-government, but now he felt that he had to leave in the meantime, because neither Koncz nor Bíró represented the interests of the poor or the Roma.
In this election, most of the opposition parties agreed and supported the same candidate, László Bíró. Are you being criticized for taking votes from the opposition and helping Fidesz with his exit?
This is not the first time I have heard that we are taking something from someone who is not theirs anyway. In an election, everyone has the opportunity to publicize a program and measure themselves. I don’t think he took anything from anyone. One thing I see is that in the recent past, both the right and the left have taken almost only actions that have not affected the community that I want to represent. Thus arose the current situation, that in this district the conditions of the 18th century also prevailed in certain settlements. This has not changed in recent decades, as the facts show.
When you talk about the circumstances of the eighteenth century, what exactly do you mean?
Well, for example, like that, I’ve never seen people there in my life. The houses are in excellent condition, there are 500 children, but there is no playground in the area. The right conditions lack the right opportunities for those who live in such a settlement.
What results do you expect in the elections?
This is not easy to predict because there is serious bullying. We have seen the videos on Facebook that the mayors of the municipality have begun to intervene with force in the elections, and in the videos they ask the neighbors to vote for Zsófia Koncz. In addition, several Roma were called and threatened with public works or otherwise to vote for Zsófia Koncz.
When you decided to start, what goals did you set for yourself?
For me, this choice is important because if we perform well, there is a chance that they will sit down and negotiate with us. It is precisely the Roma community that has been left out of the current negotiations, despite the large number of eligible voters in this area. There are 20-25 per cent of Roma voters in this district, compared to which no one has sat down to negotiate with us. My other reason to start was that I thought there would be a proper interface to forward my messages. I thought that if any of the candidates were invited to the ATV, they would also be invited to see if I could say something too. Even about the settlements that, as I said, have 18th century conditions, how could these conditions be eliminated and what should be done for the benefit of the people who live here. I wanted to convey these messages in this campaign to the majority and to the member who will be elected in this election. I thought there would be a discussion between the candidates in which we could at least talk about the problems in the area. But there was none of that.
Do you think that neither László Bíró nor Zsófia Koncz can represent the interests of the local gypsies?
You know, but you won’t. They have not done so until now. It is no coincidence that I refer to these problems. It is quite clear that the current government has given up on the poor. He who has it will have more, he who has nothing. That should change. We can see that Zsófia Koncz is not the sharpest knife in the business, it is most likely that she is not the one who initiates decisive transformations in the field of Hungarian poverty policy.
And what is your opinion about László Bíró?
Well, if someone makes anti-Semitic, racist demonstrations, as László Bíró did two years ago, it is difficult to forget here within the Roma community. The Hungarian Guardians have already been seen here, they were victims of the massacres of gypsies, this ideology that surrounds all this is not very beneficial in the eyes of the gypsies living in the constituency.
There were several candidates here at the lucky market on Saturday morning, but we didn’t see them. Or are you campaigning mainly on segregated gypsies?
No, I was here in Luck, just a few corners away. He didn’t want to come here, confront, it would have been so artificial. Although at least he would have met the two possible candidates then. In this country there are approx. 3 million people living in poverty. Of these, 2-2.5 million are non-Roma. Our poverty alleviation program focuses more on non-Roma than on Roma. As a representative of the Roma national self-government, of course I have that identity, but of course I also have a Hungarian identity, I try to help the stragglers regardless of their identity.
When Ferenc Koncz or Roland Mengyi were the local representatives, how much did they take care of these matters?
You can see that there are many Roma people in the area who sympathize with them and still do today. I miss them because they didn’t address these issues either.
According to them, Fidesz has Roma followers. Do you have Judge László?
There must be one or two. It seems that Zsófia Koncz has the support of a larger Roma community, I think, mainly due to the intimidation of the mayors. There will also be between 2000 and 2500 gypsies who will go to vote. Unfortunately not for me, but for Zsófia Koncz. I am also a little sorry that he was involved in this situation, as he could not even imagine his father’s death, he could not even cry, but he had to smile on the posters as if nothing had happened.
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