Ludovic Orban: Basescu is voted by alcoholics, gypsies and probably by prostitutes

Alert DateNovember 9, 2007 Country: Romania General Type: Racist discourse, Discrimination Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-roma/ romaphobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Roma & Travelers Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Public Discourse, Political Discourse

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On November 9th, 2007, First-Vice-president of the National Liberal party declared during the electoral campaign, with regards to the incumbent President Basescu, supported by the Democrat-Liberal Party that: “I would sum up as follows who votes for Basescu: alcoholics, gypsies (…) prostitutes, probably, although I doubt that prostitutes will vote for Basescu, taking into account the way he looks…” [1]

A petition was filed with the National Council for Combating Discrimination. [2] There is no publicly available data as to its outcome.

Source:

1. Ziare.com, Ludovic Orban: Basescu is voted by alcoholics, gypsies and probably by prostitutes, 08.11.2009, available at: http://www.ziare.com/articole/orban+tigani+drogati+prostituate (Date of access: 06.03.2012)

2. Romani CRISS, Romanian Roma Civic Alliance, Shadow report for the Committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, 77th Seession of the CERD,  27.07. 2010, p. 37, available at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds77.htm (Date of access: 12.03.2012)