Fidesz: Bill on NGO transparency is not about sanctioning

Budapest, April 12 (MTI) – The bill on the financial transparency of non-governmental organisations is not aimed at sanctioning but rather making clear who abroad finances whom in Hungary and in what way, a senior ruling party official said on Wednesday.

Gergely Gulyás, Fidesz’s deputy group leader, told a news conference in front of Parliament that numerous NGOs that backed migration were doing everything in their power to stop the government from properly seeing to tasks which derive from its legal duty, set down in Hungarian and European Union laws, to protect the border.

He added that the great majority of these organisations received large amounts of support from US financier George Soros. It is reasonable to expect that transparency — something that these groups are among the most vociferous in demanding — is something they themselves should abide by, he said.

“There is no stigma,” he said.