Over half million signatures collected in support of PM Orbán’s programme

The ruling parties have collected more than half million signatures in support of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s programme announced last week, Fidesz group leader Máté Kocsis said on Sunday.

The signature drive will continue with the help of some 20,000 activists, he told public Kossuth radio.

In line with the programme’s first proposal, the right to manage migration must be taken away from “Brussels bureaucrats” and returned to national governments, he said.

Additionally, no country should be forced to take in migrants, no migrants should be allowed to enter Europe without valid documents, the scheme of issuing anonymous pre-paid bank cards to migrants should be stopped and migrant visas should not be granted. Also, organisations linked to US financier George Soros supporting migration should not be granted European Union aid, nobody should suffer discrimination in Europe for claiming to be Christian and the EU should have anti-migration leaders, Kocsis said, listing further proposals in the programme.