Those non-governmental organisations criticise the new legislation which do not see the country’s best interests as the primary consideration, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice told Hungarian news agency MTI.

According to Pál Völner, these organisations themselves realise that if the law is passed and they are required to state how much funding they receive from abroad in the future, they may well be exposed as organisations funded by György Soros.

It may also become evident that these organisations stand up for the resettlement of migrants and the opening of the borders, he added.

He reiterated that the debate on the legislation concerning non-governmental organisations took place in Parliament on Wednesday in which the opposition parties made untrue claims, in his view.

He stressed that there are some 62 thousand non-governmental organisations in total in Hungary, approximately 20 per cent of them have revenues in the magnitude determined in the new legislation, and quite evidently only a few of these receive funding from abroad. As he said, this, too, clearly indicates that there is no problem with the planned amendment as only pro-migration circles criticise the law, while the vast majority have no objections of any kind.

(MTI)