The Government regards the fact that publisher Mediaworks suspended the publication of the printed and online editions of newspaper Népszabadság on Saturday as a purely economic decision.
“The new unity that came about at Sunday’s quota referendum, the community of over three million people who voted No to mandatory relocation, and the Government is bound by it, which has both domestic and international tasks following the referendum”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said.
Prior to the referendum, the Government launched an information campaign in the interests of informing every Hungarian citizen about the referendum and the most important risks associated with mandatory relocation.
The Minister of State at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister described the amendment of the Constitution contemplated in the wake of the Sunday quota referendum as an urgent necessity, as the decision-makers in Brussels, he said, have made clear on a number of occasions that „they have no intention whatsoever of revoking” the relocation plans.
On Monday, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson told Hungarian television channel M1 that if more than three million people have the same opinion, it is the moral obligation of the Government to take it seriously.
Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson told Hungarian television channel M1 that Brussels must acknowledge that three million people have rejected mandatory quotas in Hungary.
“Brussels has absolutely no intention of withdrawing the quota package, and in fact wants to accelerate its implementation”, Parliamentary State Secretary Csaba Dömötör from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said in reaction to statements from the leaders of European institutions on Wednesday.
Today’s resolution by the European Commissions clearly shows that Brussels is still not withdrawing its previous decision and is not withdrawing the quota package.
“Immigrants would be assigned to every Hungarian settlement if the compulsory relocation quota was introduced”, the Minister in charge of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stressed in an interview to Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap. In the Monday issue of the paper, Antal Rogán said: “We are in greater danger than we imagine”.
The Minister heading the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister believes that if the attendance rate at the 2 October referendum proves to be high, and the majority vote „no”, Brussels’ plans could be foiled.