LMP: Referendum sole opportunity for Hungarians to state opinion on Paks

Budapest, March 8 (MTI) – Opposition LMP sees a referendum as the only chance for Hungarians to thwart the “corrupt project” to expand the Paks nuclear plant, the party’s co-leader said on Wednesday.

The European Commission greenlighted the Russian-backed investment on Monday.

LMP co-leader Bernadett Szel told a press conference that Brussels had “fallen to its knees” before an international coalition “formed in the shadow of the nuclear lobby” by Hungary’s Orbán government and Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aim was to “ruin” Hungary.

LMP has called on the public to start collecting signatures in order to ensure that the campaign gets under way as soon as the National Election Committee clears any of the party’s questions submitted in connection with the Paks project. LMP has submitted ten questions so far and is open to further suggestions from the public, she said.