Fidesz requests scrutiny of Socialist referendum initiative

Budapest (MTI) – Ruling Fidesz has asked the National Data Protection Authority (NAIH) to launch an investigation into the Socialist Party’s collecting signatures for a referendum concerning Hungary’s recently abolished Sunday shopping restrictions.

János Halász, Fidesz’s parliamentary spokesman, said on Friday that since parliament has lifted the restrictions, the Socialists’ going ahead with the referendum was “illegitimate, therefore unfair”. Halász insisted that the Socialists were “misleading the people” and were illegitimately collecting their personal data through the signature drive.

Earlier in the day, Socialist leader József Tóbiás said the referendum was necessary because “several senior government politicians” had made it clear that despite parliament’s decision they would fight for reintroducing the ban.

Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters