With these words presented himself the candidate of the Youth Party of Slovenia, Idris Fadul in the Slovenian weekly magazine Delo Mag. Fadul, who is originally from Sudan, came in Slovenia during the 1980s when former Yugoslavia as a founding member of the non-aligned movement provided scholarships for students from the constituting states. Even though Youth Party as a non-parliamentarian party has very small chances for getting its own MEP, its approach in choosing the candidates seems to be at least interesting. The party seems to be aware of e-participation and as I already mentioned in one of the posts, they were looking for the candidate through the Facebook which if nothing else considered some of the possibilities for mobilizing youth into the EP election. Another part is the inclusion of Mr. Fadul into the campaign which seems to be remarkable; especially if you have in mind that Slovenia is ethnically pretty monolithic.
The approach focused on diversity is underpinned with the words of the carrier of the candidate list and the president of Youth Party of Slovenia, Darko Krajnc:
“In Slovenia we are also bored with the same political names which among alike faces drove the world into the recession. With our colorful candidate list we would like to present the ideas that support a “human friendly” world; focused on social justice, respect of human rights and preserving the nature.”
On the respect of human rights and integration of immigrants inside of the EU in above mentioned interview pointed also Mr. Fadul:
“EU pays today for building ghettos and borders around Europe. The cost for the mentioned protection is high and with this money it would be possible to provide education for all unqualified African workers. Instead of financing the Iraqi war, the same sum of money would be sufficient for establishment of a new developed state in Africa.”
Don’t you think that this is real refreshment and a good consideration in times when most of the top candidates try to dance with their potential young voters?
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Just out of the curiosity - Mr Fadul speaks Slovenian fluently, right?
Yes, he does.
Good
Interesting! We still have a long way to go in order to accept politicians with different names, different skin colour independantly from topics like diversity, though. Although, of course, diversity is an important goal. In Germany, we have second generation politicians with bicultural backgrounds. Their parents were invisible in the political sphere… So: Great, that Slovenia gives a recent immigrant a voice.
Very true, Nikola! I just thought that this is a big step and a very minor story inside of the winning political arena. But it’s an imporatant one, it shows that there are some groups who can “fly higher” and don’t see everything in domestic domain. I am convinced that in case we treat immigrants, foreign workers with respect and give them a voice than there is a chance for our better living too. thnx for your comment :)!
Just out of the curiosity - Mr Fadul speaks Slovenian fluently, right?