The so-called “national consultation” does not have any protection mechanism against repeated voting or foreign involvement.
The Hungarian government is organizing a so-called “national consultation” with a focus on issues concerning Ukraine and its membership in the EU. However, foreign nationals can technically participate in them, and the “consultations” themselves have no safeguards against repeated voting. This was stated in an article by European Truth published on Wednesday, December 27.
Now, after the return of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán from the summit in December in Brussels, Hungarians began to receive letters from the government calling on them to take part in the “national consultation”, where four of the 11 issues are focused to Ukraine and its membership. in the EU.
The majority of eligible voters ignored the previous “consultations”. Therefore, the country’s government decided to focus on online voting. An “electronic bulletin” is sent to everyone who finds themselves in government databases. The media said it confirms that “such invitations were received by Ukrainians who were vaccinated against COVID-19 in Hungary and left their personal data with the government.”
The publication states that anyone can vote in the “referendum” on the website nemzetikonzultacio.kormany.hu. There are no restrictions either on cheating votes or from voting by foreigners. In particular, if you check the box next to “I am a citizen of Hungary”, no checks will be carried out.
The system seamlessly accepted the Ukrainian phone number and provided access to the voting form to the publication’s journalist. After that, he received an invitation to go to the “survey” page again to participate in the so-called “referendum”. The journalist did it – with the same address and the same phone number.
Let’s remember that Viktor Orban is threatening to block all EU aid to Ukraine, as well as further movement of our country in the bloc, if EU leaders do not agree to reconsider their entire strategy for in support of Kyiv.
Before this, Orban said that Hungary would agree not to veto the EU’s proposal to allocate funds for Ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros, but that Brussels should unfreeze the 30 billion euros allocated for Hungary.
Source: korrespondent
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