Hungary Calls Referendum On Refugee Quotas: “Can Anyone Else Decide For Hungarians Who We Live With?”
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
02/24/2016
Orban was widely criticized for his approach to the refugee flows but his stance has been unwavering. “We hope that the messages we have been sending migrants for a long time have reached them.” Gyorgy Bakondi, an aide to the Prime Minister said. “Don’t come.”
Hungary was also a sharp critic of Brussels’ attempt to impose bloc-wide migrant quotas, a system that has infuriated a number of member states who see the move as bullying by Jean Claude-Juncker and Angela Merkel who is of course hell bent on sticking to the “yes we can” migrant narrative despite the fact that, much like the reality another famous politician faced after spouting the same vacuous rhetoric, “no we can’t” looks like a more accurate assessment.
On Wednesday, Orban took it up a notch. Hungary, he says, will call a referendum on migrant quotas.
“He said the plebiscite, the first of its kind in Europe, would be a major test of European democracy,” Reuters reports, adding that “Orban has said the migrant quotas would redraw the ethnic, cultural and religious map of Hungary and Europe.”
“Nobody has asked the European people so far whether they support, accept, or reject the mandatory migrant quotas,” Orban proclaimed, at a press conference. “”The government is responding to public sentiment now: we Hungarians think introducing resettlement quotas for migrants without the backing of the people equals an abuse of power.”
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