Socialists demand right to referendum

Budapest (MTI) – Demonstrating in front of the headquarters of the National Election Office in Budapest on Tuesday, the opposition Socialist Party demanded that the people’s right to a referendum be upheld and the independence of taxpayer-funded public media secured.

Socialist lawmaker István Nyakó, on the occasion of the March 15 national holiday, demanded the “abolition of shameful censorship”.

“We’ve come with demands, not to celebrate,” he said, adding that on the same day in 1848 no one took to the streets to celebrate but rather to demand a republic, citizen rights, press freedom and the abolition of censorship.

He called on demonstrators to join together in the fight for “the freedom of the people to vote in a referendum” on the question of Sunday shopping restrictions.

When the Kúria, the supreme court, rules on the issue of the referendum “we will wait here in front of the headquarters of the election office and we will be many,” Nyakó said.

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