Motion to Disqualify Racist Members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe presented with large support
lunedì 21 gennaio 2013 English 0 commenti
PRESS RELEASEThis morning, at the opening of the first part session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), over 30 MPs stood up to express their support to the request, presented by Italian MP Fiamma Nirenstein, to challenge, according to the Rules of Procedures of the PACE, the credentials and the committee membership of Greek Mrs. Eleni Zaroulia and of Hungarian MP Mr. Tamas Gaudy-Nagy.
The initiative concerns the membership of these two parliamentarians who belong to two neo-fascist, racist, anti-Semite parties: the Hungarian Jobbik Party and the Greek Golden Dawn Party.
The request to comply with the rules of procedure of the Council of Europe (CoE) will now be examined by the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs of the CoE.
Nirenstein declared: "The positions expressed by the two MPs are not compatible with rule 3 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, which asserts that every member of the CoE must accept the principles of the rule of law and of the enjoiment by all persons within its jurisdiction of human rights and fundamental freedom, and collaborate sincerely and effectively in the realisation of the aim of the Council…”.
Both the MPs express a political culture which discriminates and persecutes those whom they consider different. Mrs. Zarouli declared in her parliament last october that the immigrant are "subhuman" and Mr Gaudy-Nagy, during a conference on antisemitism held in this prestigious venue last June, spoke about "the Holocaust industry" as a tool in the hands of the Jews to control the world. I don't think their membership suits the values of the Council of Europe - an organization aimed a promoting the culture of human rights and tolerance.
I think we have opened here a fundamental reflection on a problem connected to the growth in Europe of neo-fascist parties and of a social diffused culture of hate and racism. no democratic parliament should accept them".
The following links concern the racists statements of the two parliamentarians:
- The Coordination Forum for countering anti-Semitism on “Anti-Semitism in Hungary and hopeful signs to combat it”
http://antisemitism.org.il/article/72844/antisemitism-hungary-and-hopeful-signs-combat-it
- European Jewish congress on “Jobbik – a Parliamentary Platform for Jew-Hatred”
http://www.eurojewcong.org/docs/jobbik-a_parliamentary_platform_for_jew-hatred.pdf
- The Coordination Forum of Countering Anti-Semitism articles on the growing wave of Anti-Semitism in Europe – in particular “Protocols of the elders of Zion Read aloud in Greek Parliament”:
http://antisemitism.org.il/page/62575/results?search=greece