A fake pre-election poster of the Democratic Union of Roma (DUR) for the local elections in Kragujevac, which speaks insultingly about the Roma national minority, has started circulating on social networks. Due to the spread of racial and ethnic hatred in this way, the holder of that list from DUR Milan Petrovic-Fafi, reported unknown perpetrators in the Department of High Technical Crime.

Otherwise, the official pre-election slogan of DUR is "All for 11 - 11 for all" is renamed to "Vote for Roma, don't be gypsies"! and social media. Petrovic himself is distancing himself from this slogan and noting that this discriminatory slogan is a discrediting, illegitimate and undemocratic act.

He believes that the perpetrators of this crime will be caught and adequately sanctioned

He says such xenophobic outbursts are likely because many Roma do not vote for their national affiliation.

According to the latest census, 1,482 Roma are registered in Kragijevac, but in reality the percentage of that number is at least six times higher.

The Government of the Republic of Northern Macedonia, at its session held on June 13, 2020, adopted a Decision on allocation of funds intended for financial support of associations and foundations for measures to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, which awarded 40 grants to associations and foundations. , in a total value of 29,519,495 denars or about 488 thousand euros

The Roma community also as part of these measures, the Government decided to allocate funds to four Roma organizations and associations in the amount of about 2,742,000 denars or about 45 thousand euros.

Roma organizations received funds from the Roma Resource Center - 810,000 denars (about 14 thousand euros), REC Ambrella - 769,500 denars (about 13 thousand euros), Roma Perspective - Prilep - 484,875 denars (about 8 thousand euros) and Ternipe - Delchevo - 678,123 denars (about 11 thousand euros).