{"id":1536,"date":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/14-02-2014-right-wing-nationalist-mayor-spreads-fear-among-slovak-rroma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:58:43","slug":"14-02-2014-right-wing-nationalist-mayor-spreads-fear-among-slovak-rroma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/14-02-2014-right-wing-nationalist-mayor-spreads-fear-among-slovak-rroma\/","title":{"rendered":"14.02.2014 Right-wing nationalist mayor spreads fear among Slovak Rroma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Jancarikova (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treports on Rroma in Banska Bystrica, in Central Slovakia. A new mayor in this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcity was elected two months ago: Marian Kotleba. Kotleba belongs to a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tright-wing nationalist party and is known for his racist remarks against Rroma. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe repeatedly called Rroma parasites and benefiters of social welfare. Kotleba \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmakes use of the tough economic times and portrays the Rroma as scapegoats for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe economic ills: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201eKotleba, who has \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tneo-Nazi roots, is gaining political traction by casting Slovakia&#8217;s large and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timpoverished Roma minority as a scapegoat for, rather than victim of, a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsluggish economy. [\u2026]&#8221;Kotleba sells himself as the protector of &#8216;decent&#8217; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpeople against &#8216;Roma parasites&#8217; and corrupt politicians,&#8221; Alena \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKluknavska, an expert on extremism from the Bratislava-based Commenius \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuniversity, told AFP.\u201c <\/em>According to the Slovakian minister of labour, 60% \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the 400,000 Slovak Rroma are integrated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Jancarikova, Tatiana (2014) Rise of far-right sparks fear amid Slovak Roma. In: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Digital Journal online <\/em>vom 11.2.2014. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/rise-of-far-right-sparks-fear-amid-slovak-roma\/article\/370076\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/rise-of-far-right-sparks-fear-amid-slovak-roma\/article\/370076<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jancarikova (2014) reports on Rroma in Banska Bystrica, in Central Slovakia. A new mayor in this city was elected two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","category-slovakia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11474,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/11474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}