Despite rising animosity toward the country’s minority Roma population – or perhaps because of it – there is now a record number of Roma running in the Czech EU elections.
Out of the 39 parties and political movements running for the elections in the Czech Republic, two are fully-fledged Roma parties with 11 candidates between them.
Roma people have not had such a strong interest in taking active part in political life since 1990, a year after the Velvet Revolution and a time whe...
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