MEP Lívia Járóka is officially a European Parliament vice-presidential candidate

MEP Lívia Járóka is the only Hungarian candidate for vice-president of the European Parliament, with far more support than the required number of MEPs. “I am convinced that recent challenges can be addressed by cooperation and the involvement of the most vulnerable. I also regard it as an important task to strengthen the European democratic right”, Lívia Járóka, Fidesz’s candidate for EP vice-president underlined.

The last two and a half years have shown that there is a greater need for high-level representation of disadvantaged European citizens and Hungarian national interests than at any time in the previous decades. The coronavirus epidemic and its economic impact have further deepened the social inequalities, which the European Union has been working to eradicate since its foundation. “In the past five years, as vice-president of the European Parliament, I have focused day after day on the highest level of representation of the tens of millions of European Roma as well as Hungarian interests, and I am asking for the confidence of the European Parliament in the upcoming two and a half years to this end”, MEP Lívia Járóka stressed.

MEP Járóka, as the first Roma vice-president of the European Parliament, has taken an active role in raising the representation of the Roma community to the EU level, as well as in promoting remembrance policies, Roma cultural heritage and talent management since 2017. It was during her vice-presidency that the Roma flag was raised for the first time on the building of the European Parliament, and she also initiated the first commemoration of the Roma victims of the Holocaust in 2020. MEP Lívia Járóka maintained her previous vice-presidential responsibilities in the first half of the parliamentary term starting in 2019: as vice-president of the European Parliament’s Audit Panel and vice-president in charge of access to documents, positions she held since her election in 2017.

“I will always stand up for Hungarian interests, the strengthening of the European democratic right, and a strong Europe of strong nation states. I am asking for the support of my fellow MEPs in these efforts”, the vice-president-designate stressed.