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| | Roma Rights / nr4, 2001 -- notebook |
 | | Arguably, it is one of the central functions of any democratic parliament to represent the entire electorate of a country, without excluding certain demographic groups.[2] Because many parliaments contain none or, at most, a few Romani Members of Parliament, they fail to reflect the diversity of the population at large. |
 | | In the most recent Bulgarian elections in June 2001, a Romani candidate from the list of the National Movement Simeon II (NDSV)[5] and one from the Coalition For Bulgaria, an electoral coalition led by the Socialist Party, were elected. |
 | | The Slovak Government has even gone so far to reproach the Roma themselves for their lack of political representation: "So far [the Roma] have not achieved such a level of social structures that would make them to support, in higher numbers, a certain Romany political party defending their interests. |
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