03/05/2019
FSG
From the Fundación Secretariado Gitano we want to contribute to the European electoral process in which millions of citizens can participate on May 26. As an entity, we want to present our recommendations to politicians and policy-makers that we must choose at the polls during this electoral process and encourage the participation of Roma people in order to comes and share their ideas and proposals as main protagonists in this process of political participation.
The elections to be held on May 26 are a key to shape the political and social context of the coming years in Europe. We are in a current European panorama of growing racist and xenophobic discourses in many Member States, so it is necessary to maintain clear and direct positions to counter these approaches and make political proposals to guarantee the foundational values of the EU is of utmost importance to build a European Union for all people. In addition, we cannot ignore the current and persistent situation of social inequalities and poverty that the Roma community suffers in most European States, which has a direct impact on access and equal enjoyment of Fundamental Rights such as education, housing or health.
In the current political context of growing racist and xenophobic discourses, a solid and straightforward determination to counterbalance such approaches and make political proposals to guarantee the EU-founding values is of extreme importance to make an EU for all.
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano hereby calls on EU political parties to:
From Fundación Secretariado Gitano, as in previous election cases, we want to contribute with our ideas and proposals to the political actors at national and European level. The most recent case has been our proposals in the last General Elections of April 28 2019 in Spain, in which we share with the main political parties a decalogue of proposals aimed at improving the situation of social vulnerability and exclusion that the Roma community suffer in Spain. These proposals were well received by all the political representatives at national, autonomous and local levels.
In the following link you can access the FSG Proposals Booklet for the Spanish General Elections https://gitanos.org/upload/54/52/FOLLETO_ELECCIONES_ESTATAL_FSG.pdf
In the following link you can consult our special dossier dedicated to the elections (only available in Spanish) where you will find all the information regarding our positioning and electoral proposals for national, regional and local elections in Spain, as well as the European Elections of 2019. https://www.gitanos.org/actualidad/dossieres/127354.html.es
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