Wooing the votes of Bulgaria's Roma

After the controversial deportations of Roma from France the French parliament has now passed on first reading a draft law that would facilitate future deportations of Roma. The liberal minority party DPS has protested against this in parliament in what the daily Novinar suspects is a bid to gain the votes of Bulgarian Roma in the country's local elections in autumn next year: "At least someone in Bulgaria is reacting to the discriminating texts the French parliament has approved. It would be better however if such declaration didn't come from a particular party but from the government itself. The silence of those in power is widening the gap between the Roma ghettos, the rest of the country and Europe. In the next elections we will once again watch how Roma votes all flow to a certain party. ... But the country's leaders shouldn't complain if they simply close their eyes to the way France treats its own citizens."

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