Hidvéghi: Magyar is ignoring views of two million Hungarians to please his masters in Brussels
Referring to the government's survey regarding whether Ukraine should be allowed to join the European Union, Balázs Hidvéghi, the parliamentary state secretary of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, said opposition Tisza Party leader Péter Magyar is ignoring the views of two million Hungarians to please his 'masters in Brussels'.
Hidvéghi said in a post on Facebook that Magyar's party had itself conducted a survey of voters on the same question 'on the orders of Brussels', and this revealed that Tisza 'supports Ukraine's accession to the EU'.
The Fidesz politician added that twice as many people voted in the government's Vote 2025 as in the Tisza party survey.
The results of Vote 2025 will be certified by a notary, he added.
Meanwhile, Magyar said in a statement today that Vote 2025 was 'government propaganda' and 'a total failure'.
He cited information from the Hungarian Post Office suggesting that 3-7 percent of postal survey papers sent out were returned by voters.
This would equal around 500,000 people who returned their responses by mail. Furthermore, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, told a government news briefing that the responses cast online 'were negligible compared with the number of those returned on paper', he added.
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