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Opposition parties slam Budapest’s secretive migrant policy
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Opposition parties in the Budapest assembly slammed the municipal government’s handling of policy on the treatment of migrants, with the leftist Democratic Coalition arguing that Budapest’s leadership had rightly “completely sided with refugees” but amid a general hate campaign against migrants, while the radical nationalist Jobbik party complained that the city ran a tight-lipped scheme that helped migrants in Hungary.
DK Budapest lawmaker Erzsébet Gy. Német told a news conference on Wednesday that the government’s communications strategy to vilify migrants ahead of the 2018 general election campaign had collapsed after it turned out that 1,300 refugees were in fact admitted to the country last year. She added that it was right that Hungary, after the appropriate background checks, had accepted asylum seekers in need.
Jobbik Budapest deputy Marcell Tokody, on the other hand, complained that the relevant Budapest authority not only provided migrants with money to pay rent for accommodation but the municipality’s scheme