Clochemerle Slovakia
RICHNAVA A small market town of central Slovakia, everything would be better in an ideal world if people did not elect a mayor in 2010 ... illiterate. Pokuta Vladimir, from the Roma minority and long-term unemployed, had managed to deceive during the campaign. But when it came to read his inaugural address, his little secret was invented. A video of the ceremony circulating on YouTube since December 28 has been viewed 118,000 times. It shows the 43-year elected stammer and stutter his text, not a secretary before coming to the rescue by finishing reading the speech. Since the whole Slovakia mocked, while in Richnava, the non-Roma require revocation of Pokuta for incompetence and the holding of new elections. In this country of 5.4 million inhabitants, as elsewhere in Central Europe Roma have never had good press. Whether they constitute 10% of the population, they are almost all settled, poor image always sticks to their skin. In search of educational and vocational integration, the Slovak Roma suffer from rampant poverty, an unemployment rate above 30%, against a national average of 12% in 2010, and an irreducible ostracism. Cornered Vladimir Pokuta does not abandon his post. Ironically on a difficult start, he hopes to accomplish this is why he was elected: regularize illegal constructions Richnava Roma.
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