Leftist opposition parties accuse govt of seeking exit from EU

Budapest, June 30 (MTI) – Recent remarks by the government office chief reveal that the government aims at steering Hungary out of the European Union, Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi said in a statement on Thursday.

The leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) said that the government would seek authorisation to quit the EU through Hungary’s quota referendum in the autumn.

Earlier in the day, János Lázár said in connection with Brexit that he, too, could not “vote in support of continued membership full-heartedly” and voiced disapproval of “what happens in Brussels”. He added that the EU’s institutions were doing more harm to the European cause than they promoted resolution of the community’s problems.

Ujhelyi called Lázár’s remarks “appalling” and noted that Lázár himself was in charge of distributing “thousands of billions of forints” in EU subsidies to the country.