Heti Válasz: Orbán secretly awaits thousands of Ukrainian migrant workers

Weekly news magazine Heti Válasz writes that tens of thousands of Ukrainian migrant workers may arrive to Hungary in the near future, and the legislations making it possible have already been prepared. There is only one critical condition for this to happen: migrant workers intending to come to Hungary must be working in shortage occupations, 24.hu wrote.

The weekly magazine claims that the Hungarian government has already laid the groundwork for the arrival of Ukrainian migrant workers with secretly amended legislations. The magazine also says that the government is deliberately silent on the issue because they do not want to create confusion before the migrant quota referendum.

In case the referendum was not valid, helping Ukrainians fleeing warfare on the other side of the border could be used as a trump card by the government; it could say that, though not by receiving Muslim people, it is actively involved in helping refugees.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán already raised the issue of providing shelter for a hundred thousand Ukrainians in need two years ago, but the opposition did not find them back then, writes the weekly magazine, which has called the Ukrainians “strange refugees”.