Viktor Orban according to his decision revokes the government’s appointment of Attila Sztojka as the government commissioner responsible for Roma relations, the decision is effective from September 1, 2024. At the same time, Decree No. 1297/2022 on the appointment and duties of the government commissioner responsible for Roma relations will expire. government decision.
Attila Sztojka, government commissioner and Fidesz member of parliament, is also the president of the Gypsy interest protection organization called CiKöSz, which won the majority in the National Roma Self-Government (ORÖ) in the national elections in June. The list was headed by Sztojka, who according to the conflict of interest rules could not be an ORÖ representative, if he is also a government commissioner, but this obstacle was removed.
In her post on Thursday, Stójka thanked János Daróczi, the Director General of the General Directorate for Social Opportunity Creation, for his successful work so far, and also noted in her post that “in a different area of responsibility, but we will continue to create opportunities!”. (The new director general has already been found to head the board Sándor János Horváth in person).
Attila Sztojka, the government commissioner responsible for Roma relations, gives a speech to the territorial defense reservists I love you, I protect you! at the event of his national recruitment campaign with the motto in Barcs, on June 18, 2024.
Photo: MTI/Tibor Katona
By the way, before the elections, it seemed that the real challenger to the CiKöSz led by him was Flórián Farkas’s Lungo Drom, i.e. Fidesz’s former partner. In January, a post appeared on their social media page that read: “Never again Flórián Farkas, never again Lungo Drom!” (One of the most serious corruption scandals of the past decade can be linked to Farkas’ name A bridge to the world of work in connection with the multi-billion resources of the program called The proceedings initiated in the case did not find Farkas guilty).
In January 2022, Stójka made headlines when two audio recordings reached the press, in which he talks in a narrow circle with ORÖ representatives. At one of them, for example, he said that the General Directorate for Social Opportunities, which he still led at the time, offered a contract to representatives who were “in this circle”. On the other, he claimed that “we know everything about everyone” in the Ministry of the Interior.
And shortly before the elections, it was revealed that the Tissaroff German municipality, which won more than four million forints in the tender of the general directorate, used the money to organize a pig slaughter.