Jobbik holds anti-migration demo in front of EC office

Budapest (MTI) – Hungary must make it clear to Brussels that it wants no part of the migrant quota system, Gabor Vona, leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party, said at a demonstration his party organised against the EU’s migration policy, in front of the European Commission Representation in Hungary on Wednesday.

Signature drives are no longer enough after the Paris attacks, the government must hold a referendum on the quota system, Vona told the hundreds of protesters. He said the threat of terrorism has risen “tremendously” since last Friday.

Vona said the result of a binding referendum “would spread like wildfire across Europe”. He said Europeans disagree with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EC President Jean-Claude Juncker on the handling of incoming migrants, adding that the two leaders “are afraid to ask the people” what they should do about the migration crisis.

Vona said his party’s “message to the world” is that “if 100,000 migrants come to our borders, we will send 100,000 people to protect it, if one million arrive, we will send one million and if even more migrants arrive then all 10 million of us will go there … Hungary will remain ours until our last breaths!”

He compared the quota scheme to a “house party gone wrong” where the party-goers crash at the neighbour’s house for the night. He said that all political parties need to unite in order to block the scheme.