Czech
Republic: Romani candidate proposed for Deputy Human Rights Minister
Prague, 28.1.2014 7:54, (ROMEA)
Edita Stejskalová (PHOTO: Czech Television)
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, the
chair of the Czech Social Democrats, and Andrej Babiš, chair of the ANO
movement, have not yet reached agreement on deputy ministerial appointments for
the incoming cabinet. The names of some of the deputy ministers that ANO
intends to send to the ministries have now been revealed.
Edita Stejskalová, a political scientist
and Romani Studies scholar, is the ANO candidate for deputy to incoming Human
Rights Minister Jiří Dienstbier. "In principle, we don't want to send
party members of ANO to the ministries, we want to send experts," Babiš
said in an interview for the daily Právo, "and we would like to see the
political scientist Edita Stejskalová become deputy to the minister without
portfolio, Jiří Dienstbier."
Stejskalová, a member of the Romani
community, has long been involved in Romani issues. In 2006 she founded the
civic association Zvůle§Práva, which assisted victims of discrimination and was
involved in the "Together to School" (Společně do školy) project,
which endeavored to halt unjustified enrollments of Romani children into the
“practical primary schools”, which are designed to serve children with light
mental disability.
Another interesting name on the list of
advisers to Babiš is Robert Pelikán. The attorney and legislative expert should
remain on the ANO team even after Babiš is installed in his dual roles as
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister.
Pelikán is currently representing the
surviving children of Ľudovít Kašpar, who died after two police officers
intervened against him in Kynšperk nad Ohří. In the past Pelikán has
represented the victims of illegal police interventions against the
anti-fascist blockades of neo-Nazi marches in the towns of Krupka and Nový
Bydžov in 2011; the aggrieved party in the case of a racially motivated assault
on a citizen of Beroun by neo-Nazis in 2009; and the aggrieved party in the
controversial shooting death of a Romani youth in Tanvald in the early morning
hours of New Year’s Day 2012.
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translated by Gwendolyn Albert
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