Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-15-Speech-1-042"
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"en.20041115.13.1-042"2
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"As a lawyer of minority rights who is committed to Romania’s accession, I would like to draw your attention to an increasing democratic deficit. General elections will be held in Romania on 28 November. On 25 October, one of the Hungarian minority organisations was deprived of its right to run in the elections based on a discriminatory Election Act, the involvement of the police, and the intimidation of certain people. All of the methods that were employed are incongruous with the concept of European pluralism and democracy. The same organisation, the Hungarian Civic Union, was discriminatively excluded even from local authority elections in July. The European Commission’s Annual Report disapproved of this, and at that time the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats set up a committee to investigate the case. The discriminatory regulations of the Election Act, the discriminatory action on part of the authorities and the exclusion from elections harshly violates the European standard of democracy and pluralism as well as the Copenhagen Criteria, which provide the basis for a stable constitutional state and a working democracy. A working democracy is indeed a condition for membership within the Union."@en1
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