Referendum – Orbán hails referendum result as ‘outstanding’
Budapest (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hailed the result of Hungary’s referendum on European migrant quotas as “outstanding”, arguing that the number of votes cast for the “no” side had exceeded the number of votes cast in favour of Hungary joining the EU in 2004.
In the referendum on Hungary’s European Union membership, 3,056,000 people voted to join the bloc and now 3,204,000 people voted “no”, discounting the votes cast by ethnic Hungarians living beyond the border, Orbán said.
He said that turnout in the referendum was 15 percent higher than in the last European parliamentary election in 2014. Commenting on the result, the prime minister said: “The weapon will be strong enough in Brussels.”
“We can be proud that we Hungarians were the first and so far only member state in the EU to voice our opinion on the issue of migration. This was the right thing to do. It was the honourable thing to do,” Orbán said.
The question of “whom we will live with; what will become of our culture and our way of life” would be one of the most important in the coming years, the prime minister said.
The question now is how the EU responds to the modern-day “mass migration wave”. The EU’s proposal has been to let migrants in and distribute them among member states, he said, stressing that in the referendum Hungarians had made clear that only they can decide with whom they live.
“Brussels or Budapest. That was the question. And we decided that the right to decide lies solely with Budapest,” he said.
Orbán said the referendum was the first important step of a “long journey” ahead. Hungary would have to fight many tough battles along the way, he added.
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To the 50% of Hungarians who did not bother to vote shame on you for such a stupid thing to do. The more of you that voted the stronger the case to the idiot politicians in Brussels would have been.
Having travelled through Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France and fetching up in the UK for a holiday I can tell you we did NOT meet one person who wanted the migrants.
A bigger turn out would have prevented a news article like the one in the press in the UK ‘Hungarians shun voting’ implying that 50% of Hungarians are pro migrant.
Ever more extra Problems in Germany since 2015. Sexuell attacks ever more. House rubbing, Attackings..The Society is Splitting. No Trust between Pro and Contra’s , many Kinds of “Migrants” from other Cultures dont understand /Akzept the western Livestyle . The Question of 1 Religion are everyday Theme in the News with Pressure to have Tolerance, or the best , take this direct for yourself ! NOT the Christianity! The Migrants who are integrate are the Victims too .
At 20:00 O clock , the most People didnt go out . Woman, not alone . Ist a big Risk. To danger in GER.