PM party MEP submits Paks expansion referendum question

Budapest, March 30 (MTI) – Dialogue for Hungary (PM) MEP Benedek Jávor on Wednesday submitted a referendum question concerning the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant to the National Election Committee (NVB).

If the question is approved by the committee, citizens would be asked: “Do you agree that Hungary’s parliament should pass a resolution mandating the government to initiate the cancellation of the agreement it signed with Russia on expanding the Paks power plant?”.

Jávor told a press conference after submitting the question that its phrasing is deliberately similar to the government’s question on mandatory migrant quotas. He said he was “curious to see” if the NVB would “apply double standards” in the cases of two questions that both pertain to international commitments. Jávor said that if the government’s migrant quota question was approved then it is only fair that his own question should also be put up for referendum.