Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is requesting that the National Election Office (NEO) and the National Election Commission (NEC) analyse the situation which has developed with regard to the initiating of referenda and put forward a proposal on amending existing regulations.
“The Government has adopted a decision on calling a referendum on the compulsory resettlement quotas”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced at a press conference during a recess in today’s Cabinet meeting.
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Szekszárd’s local television channel Tolnatáj TV that political leaders must establish a homeland which awaits the return of Hungarians from all corners of the world.
Developments worth more than HUF 33 billion can be implemented in Szekszárd, the administrative seat of Tolna County, in accordance with an agreement signed as part of the Modern Cities Programme by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the city’s mayor Rezső Ács.
In an address before the start of the day’s business in Parliament, in which he gave an account of the EU summit held at the end of last week, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán described prevention of the introduction of compulsory resettlement quotas as the highest priority in the coming period.
According to the Prime Minister, the opposition is continuously attacking those Hungarians who are working abroad, and depicting them in a negative light.
The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has told Hungarian news agency MTI that today’s meeting of the National Assembly will begin with the Prime Minister’s address to Parliament before the start of daily business.
At his press conference held after the two-day summit of the European Council in Brussels, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that European Union heads of state and government have declared that the external borders of Europe must be protected, the mass movement of migrants must be halted, and everyone must fully observe the terms of the Schengen Agreement.
“I feel that today nothing has been forced upon us which Hungary would not want or could not accept”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday, in relation to the meeting of EU heads of state and government convened in Brussels to discuss illegal immigration.
Following talks on Wednesday with President of Russia Vladimir Putin at his state residence near Moscow, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán said that his country’s cooperation with Russia on the expansion of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant was the agreement and deal of the century.