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2/27/26

How Orbán’s Fidesz Instrumentalises Hungary’s Roma as an Electoral Prop

The women refer to a speech by Hungary’s Minister of Transport, János Lázár, who happens to be one of the most prominent faces in Orbán’s political campaign for the April parliamentary elections. In the widely discussed passage that has circulated in public debate, Lázár stated: “if there are no migrants, and someone must clean the restroom on the InterCity train — because Hungarian voters are not exactly rushing to sign up to clean someone else’s shit in train-restroom — then we have to uncover internal reserves. And the internal reserve means the Gypsy population of Hungary.” Suite.