Czech fact-checkers find untruth in interview with Romani party chair

Miroslav Tancoš, the chair of the Romani Democratic Party (Romská demokratická strana – RDS), was recently featured in the Czech Television program "Interview with Daniela Drtinová" (Interview Daniely Drtinové). Tancoš presented the party’s plans for the upcoming elections, in which it is fielding candidates in only a few regions.

Demagog.cz, a website devoted to fact-checking politicians’ statements, has evaluated the truthfulness of the party chair’s performance. Of five statements selected for fact-checking, two were evaluated as true, two could not be verified, and one was found to be untrue.

The untrue statement concerned the party chair’s work with the previous incarnation of the RDS, the Romani Democratic Social Party (Romská demokratická sociální strana – RDSS) which was dissolved at the start of 2011 by the Supreme Administrative Court for not supplying financial reporting as required by law. During the interview, Tancoš said he had not been chair of the RDSS at that time, but news server ČeskéNoviny.cz has reported that he was its chair from 2005-2011.