Mi Hazánk protests for ‘order’ in N Hungary

The non-parliamentary Mi Hazánk party demanded “order in the country” at a protest attended by several hundred supporters in front of the local government office in Miskolc, in north-eastern Hungary, late on Sunday.

Addressing the event, the radical nationalist party’s head László Toroczkai referred to Roma people as a minority with “tribal organisations”, which posed a threat to the majority, including ambulance workers, police, teachers and kindergarten nurses. At the same time, he said “decent working Roma must be respected”.

There are “no-go zones” in Hungary, he insisted citing a recent case when ambulance staff could not reach a patient in time because they needed police support.

He said it was unacceptable that the Opre Roma Party maintained a plan to “tear four counties out of Hungary” to set up an autonomous Roma province and offer basic income to local Roma from tax-payers’ money.