“We ask that all Members of Parliament and responsible political figures hear the voice of the Hungarian people, who in contrast to the opposition parties do not want Hungary to become an immigrant country”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said in a pre-agenda speech on Monday in Parliament, drawing the attention of opposition parties to the partial results of the National Consultation.
According to the State Secretary, what is now at stake is nothing less than the country’s independence, sovereignty and security, and “this issue is so important that it also designates the main issue at stake at next year’s elections”, because in view of statements by Hungary’s opposition parties is clear that for the moment the people can only count on the Government with relation to this issue.
Mr. Dömötör stressed that Hungary is being targeted; “they want the Government to give up its principled standpoint”, and we can be sure that the Government will not shy away from these disputes; “we must protect Hungary”. The State Secretary drew the attention of MPs to the fact that well in excess of 2 million people had taken part in the National Consultation, and that with almost two thirds of replies already processed the respondents are almost unanimously against mandatory resettlement. The Hungarian people “do not want resettlement, but they do want strong border protection; they do not want to spend 9 million forints-a-head to every immigrant, they do not want their own culture and language to lose significance, and they are also against pressure being put on countries that are against illegal immigration”, the State Secretary highlighted in his speech.
Mr. Dömötör listed the statements made by Brussels politicians in recent days, all of which confirm that Brussels is continuing to push its pro-immigration policies and the mandatory resettlement quotas. “There is only one thing that we can say in credit to these Brussels politicians: at least they are playing with an open deck, unlike Hungary’s opposition parties who deny the existence of the whole resettlement programme while otherwise having no qualms about voting in favour of it in Brussels”, the State Secretary said.