Questions in the so-called “national consultation” were accompanied by “explanations” about why aid to Ukraine was “harmful”.
The Hungarian government on Friday, November 17, launched an informal survey of local voters on several controversial issues. The survey consists of 11 questions, including about stopping EU aid to Ukraine and obstructing Ukraine’s EU accession negotiations. It was reported by the Associated Press news agency.
The Hungarian government calls this survey a “national consultation.”
An example of one such question: “Should Hungary block the EU’s plan to give Ukraine a four-year, €50 billion aid package if the bloc does not unfreeze billions of dollars in aid to Budapest, delayed by concerns about Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s failure to uphold the rule of law standards of rights and human rights?
Official Budapest assures in its explanation that the reason for the blocking of aid to Hungary is not the actions of Orban and his government, but the European Union helping Ukraine.
“They ask Hungary for additional support (for Ukraine – ed.), although because of this our country did not receive EU funds,” said one of the fragments of the survey.
One possible answer to this question is: “We should not pay more to support Ukraine until we receive the money owed to us.”
Other issues include whether military aid to Kyiv should be cut and opposition to Ukraine’s EU accession talks.
The remaining issues of the “national consultation” concern the topic of migration and LGBT+.
The survey is sent by mail to every Hungarian citizen who is eligible to vote.
“They usually receive responses from less than 20% of Hungarian adults, but their results show up to 99% agreement with the government’s position,” the media noted.
Let’s recall that Viktor Orban said earlier that the situation with the Hungarian language and education was supposedly better in Transcarpathia under the USSR than it is now during independent Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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