Government: Respondents to questionnaire on migration for stricter measures
Budapest (MTI) – Some 90 percent of respondents to a national consultation drive on migration agreed that stricter rules should apply to illegal entrants concerning their detention and deportation, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
So far 400,000 questionnaires filled out have been sent back to the government of which 200,000 have been processed, Zoltan Kovacs told a press conference.
He said that answering the question on a preferred method for tackling the labour shortage and demographic decline issues, more than 90 percent supported central family support schemes instead of accepting immigrants.
Referring to another question included in the consultation form on terrorism, Kovacs said that responses reflect that Hungarians basically feel safe in their country, but perceive a terrorist act as conceivable.
He said that about two-thirds of respondents held the opinion that current EU regulations create, in part, the possibility that “illegal immigration might also carry the threat of terrorism”.
Kovacs was asked to respond to a report in daily Napi Gazdasag’s Saturday online edition saying that the government “is looking at legal and other means of possibly closing Hungary’s southern border which serves as one of the major transit section for refugees and migrants coming from the south and east and seeking destinations in Western Europe”.
“The Hungarian government must study each and every option, but the situation at the moment is not so that such a step would be immediately planned,” Kovacs said.
The opposition Socialists said that with altogether 5 percent of eligible voters sending a response, the consultation drive is “a huge failure of the government”.
As much as 1.3 billion forints (EUR 4.2m) have been wasted on “an inhumane and xenophobic campaign to create a mood which is humiliating to every decent and fair Hungarian,” the party said in a statement. It called on every “decent” Hungarian to ignore the questionnaire.
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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