Around 800 people participated in a march held to promote Roma rights in central Budapest on Saturday afternoon.
The Roma March organised by the Roma community network We Belong Here started off from Matyas Square in the 8th district and went along Rakoczi Avenue to Blaha Lujza Square. Many of the participants were carrying Roma, Hungarian and European Union flags.
Chief organiser and Roma activist Jeno Setet said at the end of the march that the day of Roma pride was held in response to the negative public sentiment against the Roma that had developed in recent years. The Roma must work together and join forces for human dignity and also against the extreme right and "political exploitation," he added.
Aladar Horvath, the leader of the Roma Civil Rights Movement, said the situation of the Roma further deteriorated in Hungary under the current government in the past three years. He said Hungary's Roma had been "separated from the majority nation" on "an ethnic and social basis" and for this reason he announced he would join the Hungarian Gypsy Party.
Opposition Democratic Coalition politicians Laszlo Varju and Peter Niedermuller, as well as E14-PM co-chair Peter Juhasz participated in the march.
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