Jobbik lawmaker denies claims that the party stigmatises Roma and gays

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The deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party has rejected charges that the party stigmatises Roma and gays.

Tamás Sneider at a news conference on Monday was asked about Jobbik’s attitudes to gays, Roma and Jews. He said the party counted on everyone’s vote, and in the 2014 general election all sorts of people made up the Jobbik vote, including “lots and lots of Gypsies and other groups”.

He insisted that the party did not preoccupy itself with the sexual identity of people who turned up at voting booths.

Asked about the Pride march and whether it should be banned, he said that if a public scandal arose, then certain restrictions may be considered, but otherwise the law on public assembly allowed the march to go ahead.

Sneider said that no kind of disparaging statement had been made by Jobbik concerning Roma and gays. “The fact that

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