The government is extending the deadline for responding to the National Consultation public survey by a week, to 17 January, the Government Information Centre (KTK) said on Tuesday.
Many questionnaires are still being returned, the centre said in a statement, adding that so far 1,222,000 responses have been made.
The statement said Hungarians were being given the chance to express their opinion on several issues that fundamentally affected the country’s sovereignty, such as the EU’s migration package.
“It will carry much weight at the negotiating tables in Brussels if we are many in standing up for our position…” it added.
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Hungary MEP says change needed in Brussels
“Brussels needs change, so Hungary will have to take over its political leadership in June,” Balázs Hidvéghi, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, said on Tuesday.
“People from the Soros network are pursuing their surreptitious attacks on Hungary,” Hidvéghi said in a video sent to MTI, referring to a Finnish MEP’s recent proposal
to launch a new rule-of-law procedure against Hungary and suspend the country’s voting rights.
Hidvéghi insisted that the European Commission had “issued a written certificate” of Hungary’s rule of law being adequate when it released 10 billion euros in EU funding to the country.
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Fidesz MP: European liberal left ‘contradicting itself again’
It did not take long in the new year for the European liberal left “to contradict itself again”, Judit Varga, the (Fidesz) head of parliament’s European affairs committee, said on Tuesday. Varga cited recent reports of “the Brussels elite” planning to initiate another Article 7 procedure against Hungary that would set the basis for suspending the country’s voting rights.
She said in a Facebook post that this came after Hungary had built the European Union’s best-rated justice system, which she said was proven by the fact that the European Commission had begun to unfreeze the cohesion funds the country is entitled to. Varga added it was clear that when it came to “Hungarophobia, the liberal left did not even believe its own institutions”.
The Rouble Right Fidesz elite are in a panic now with Article 7 procedures being looked at. We know the Putin network is active with its’ surreptitious attacks on the EU. Budapest needs change so the EU will have to take action.