Supreme court gives green light to referendum on migrant quota

Budapest, May 3 (MTI) – The Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, on Tuesday gave the all-clear to a government-initiated referendum about migrant quotas.

The Kúria rejected appeals submitted against the National Election Committee’s decision to pass the referendum question.

Citizens in the proposed referendum will be asked

“Do you want to allow the European Union to mandate the resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary without the approval of the National Assembly?”

The question was submitted on behalf of the government by cabinet office chief Antal Rogán and the election committee approved it on February 29. Four appeals were submitted to revise the committee decision.

After assessing the appeals against the election committee’s approval of the initiative, the Kúria determined that the referendum question is in line with both the constitution and the referendum law.

The three criteria a referendum question has to meet in order to be cleared are that it cannot be in conflict with international treaties, its subject must fall within the competence of parliament and it must be clearly phrased.

The Kúria said the government’s question met all three requirements.