The small municipality of Orehovica in the north of Croatia is the first and so far the only municipality in which the Roma minority exceeded 33 percent of the population and achieved the right to equal official use of their language, i.e. to bilingual boards at institutions.
Local authorities say that there will be no problem in realizing that right.
Also, in local elections in three years, Roma in Međimurje will be able to elect their own deputy prefect.
According to the 2021 Census, the number of Roma in the municipality of Orehovica in Međimurje County has grown significantly, so there are 916 of them, i.e. 33.68 percent of the total population of the municipality. According to Article 12 of the Constitutional Law on the Rights of Minorities, this gives them the right to equal official use of languages and letters.
In practice, this means bilingual plaques at state institutions in the municipality and bilingual street names.
Link: https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/hrvatska-romi-orehovica-dvojezi%C4%8Dnost/32075886.html
