{"id":23269,"date":"2024-03-05T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T06:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=23269"},"modified":"2024-03-05T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T06:37:54","slug":"slovakia-the-elections-and-roma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/slovakia-the-elections-and-roma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia, the Elections, and Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dispute between the Union of Roma in Slovakia and the movement of Igor Matovi\u010d O\u013daNO is escalating. First, on December 14, 2023, members of the union filed a criminal complaint in connection with a 500-euro promises made to Roma for participation in the elections. Matovi\u010d&#8217;s deputy Peter Poll\u00e1k Jr. subsequently filed a criminal complaint for slander. On Monday, Franti\u0161ek Tanko, the chairman of the civic association Union of Roma in Slovakia, testified about this at the police in Galant. According to Tank, Matovi\u010d received 30 million euros for the last two election periods thanks to the votes of thousands of Roma, and therefore called on him to pay them the promised 500 euros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is not good, as it also plays in the hands of the current populist prime minister Fico.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matovi\u010dovci a \u00dania R\u00f3mov s\u00fa v spore pre 500 eurov\u00fd pr\u00edspevok vo vo\u013eb\u00e1ch, pod\u00e1vaj\u00fa na seba vz\u00e1jomne trestn\u00e9 ozn\u00e1menia. In: Sita. 04.03.2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/sita.sk\/matovicovci-a-unia-romov-su-v-spore-pre-500-eurovy-prispevok-vo-volbach-podavaju-na-seba-vzajomne-trestne-oznamenia\/\">https:\/\/sita.sk\/matovicovci-a-unia-romov-su-v-spore-pre-500-eurovy-prispevok-vo-volbach-podavaju-na-seba-vzajomne-trestne-oznamenia\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00dania R\u00f3mov ku kauze 500 eur: Matovi\u010dovci p\u00e1chali volebn\u00fa korupciu formou organizovanej zlo\u010dineckej skupiny. In: eReport. 05.03.2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/ereport.sk\/matovicovci-pachali-volebnu-korupciu-formou-zlocineckej-skupiny\/\">https:\/\/ereport.sk\/matovicovci-pachali-volebnu-korupciu-formou-zlocineckej-skupiny\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dispute between the Union of Roma in Slovakia and the movement of Igor Matovi\u010d O\u013daNO is escalating. First, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sita.sk\/sites\/32\/2022\/12\/3j2a4649-scaled-1-676x451.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,598],"tags":[731,661],"class_list":["post-23269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-eastern-europe","category-slovakia","tag-corruption","tag-elections"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sita.sk\/sites\/32\/2022\/12\/3j2a4649-scaled-1-676x451.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23271,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23269\/revisions\/23271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}