Lungo Drom wins at Hungary's minority elections

Fidesz MP Flórián Farkas and the Lungo Drom he heads won the national Roma elections in Hungary on Sunday, initial data suggested on Monday. The official results will be announced by the National Election Commission tomorrow.

Lungo Drom won 2,782 votes, beating the Hungarian Roma Forum, which won 2,507 votes. Lungo Drom is expected to have 28 deputies in the National Gypsy Authority. The Roma can establish regional minority authorities in all the counties, and in Budapest, while Slovenes and Ukrainians will have no county bodies.

Ethnic Germans will set up 11 regional authorities, Croats seven, Slovaks six, Romanians three, Bulgarians, Poles, Ruthenians and Serbs two each, while Greeks and Armenians will establish one county minority authority each.

The above story is just one of more than two dozen published today by Hungary Around the Clock, the most comprehensive source of daily English-language news about Hungary. For a free trial of HATC, click here. Hungarian news sources include Népszabadság; Magyar Hírlap; Világgazdaság; Napi Gazdaság; Magyar Nemzet; Népszava; Kossuth Rádió news and Hungarian television's nightly news broadcast.

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