Orbán called on Hungarians to participate in the government’s public survey on the “Soros plan”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an interview to public radio on Friday, called on Hungarians to participate in the government’s public survey on the “Soros plan”. The survey will help the country protect itself from migration, he said.

The survey dubbed “national consultation” will ask Hungarians for their view on whether or not Hungary should become an immigrant country. As we wrote on Monday, on the forst day of parliament’s autumn session, Orbán said: We want a Hungarian Hungary and a European Europe.

American financier George Soros has published the plan himself, Orbán said. In it, he outlined an action plan which opposes the Hungarian government’s proposals, he said.

“Brussels bureaucrats” are working on implementing this plan point by point, he insisted.

But leaders in Europe’s council of ministers will not secure a unanimous decision on the matter, Orbán said, because he himself would veto it.

He said

the results of the public survey would show on the international stage that “the vast majority of the Hungarian national community shares the same standpoint as the prime minister”.

Orbán said it was not the case that Brussels was considering withdrawing funding to Hungary due to its dispute with the government over migration. In any case, he said, such a move was inconceivable as it lacked any lawful basis. He also said Brussels could not levy a fine on Hungary for the same reason, adding that European leaders who made such threats were doing so illegally.

The prime minister said

it would be the right thing for the European Commission to pay half of Hungary’s costs related to protecting the external border.