Not surprising: Hungarians reject migrant quotas!

Hungary illegal migration
MTI/EPA/Valda Kalnina

Almost all respondents to the government’s National Consultation public survey have indicated their objection to any form of mandatory distribution of illegal migrants across the European Union, the state secretary for international communication and relations said in a video published on Facebook on Friday.

Zoltán Kovács said that out of the over 1.4 million respondents, fully 1,388,227, or 99 percent, said that they approved of the government’s position on rejecting any such plans. “This is a convincing vote against,” he said. Fully 98 percent of the respondents said that illegal migration should be prevented from further aggravating the coronavirus situation, the state secretary said. An equal proportion of respondents said that “Soros organisations” should be prevented from promoting illegal migration, he added.

Altogether

98 percent supported the government’s readiness to enter into debates with Brussels and “protect the Hungarian people’s position”

on other subjects, Kovács said.

 
Justice Minister Judit Varga on Friday welcomed an announcement of Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, that he would initiate a referendum on migration later this month. In a bilingual Facebook post, Varga said “just like Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in his speech [at the 16th Strategic Forum] in Bled a week ago,
 
Barnier also declared that Member States should now get back their legal sovereignty on migration issues so that their sovereign decisions cannot be overtaken by the Court of Justice of the European Union or the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.”
 
“More and more people dare to express their disagreement on EU institutions interfering in the sovereign decisions of Member States,” Varga said. Hungary has maintained from the “very beginning” that “the resettlement of migrants leads to the cultural self-surrender of Europe”, built a border fence to protect the country and asked Hungarian citizens on their opinion in a domestic referendum, she said.

Referring to the EU, Varga said “later, they launched an attack against us in both cases. Today, on the other hand, more and more people think that Hungary has made the right decision. In fact, they would all do the same now. We are keen to see future developments,” she added.
 

Source: MTI

Tags