E/CN.4/2001/21 page 45 administrative remedies only. Discrimination against the Roma persists in the areas of housing, employment and justice; the Roma are excluded from restaurants, swimming pools, discotheques and other public places. The system of special schools is still in place and no improvements have been made. F. Romania 151. The extreme right in Romania is resurgent and is asserting itself, as indicated by the results of the Presidential elections of November-December 2000. The nationalist party “Romania Max” (the Greater Romanian Party (PRM)), whose candidate Cornelia Vadim Tudor garnered 33.17 per cent of the vote, has become the second most powerful political force in the country; while Ion Iliescu, who led the country from 1990 to 1996, obtained 66.83 per cent of the vote. The PRM, which advocates an ultranationalist policy, is opposed to the existence of minorities - especially the Roma - in Romania. It also holds 28 per cent of the seats in Parliament. G. United Kingdom 152. The Special Rapporteur is awaiting information from the Government of the United Kingdom on follow-up to the recommendations which he made following his visit in November 1995 (E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.4, para. 96). In the meantime, he wishes to draw the Commission’s attention to a document compiled by several United Kingdom NGOs under the title “Joint NGO submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)”, which was published to coincide with the Committee’s consideration of the fifteenth periodic report of the United Kingdom (CERD/C/338/Add.12, Part I). This document contains useful information on racist attacks and racial harassment, discrimination in the fields of education and employment, and the shortcomings of the judicial system in terms of curbing racial discrimination. It is available for consultation in the files of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. H. Switzerland 153. The Swiss judiciary has made efforts to combat racism and anti-Semitism. Thus, on 10 April 2000, a court in the canton of Vaud, on the basis of article 261 bis of the Criminal Code concerning the public peace and racial discrimination, found Gaston-Armand Amaudruz guilty of racial discrimination and sentenced him to one year’s non-suspended imprisonment with publication of the judgement in three major newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland. It also ordered him to pay 57,000 Swiss francs in court costs and an indemnity to four claimants for criminal indemnification, namely the Fédération Suisse des communautés israélites, the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported from France, and Sigmund Toman, a concentration-camp survivor. In addition, the Lausanne Criminal Court ordered the seizure and destruction of a number of books, articles and documents belonging to this Holocaust denier. Since 1995, there have been more than 200 trials and approximately 100 convictions (see, for example, Andreas Rieder, “Pratique des tribunaux relative à l’article 261 bis du Code Pénal”, March 1999).