Vona: Orban must resign if he loses migrant quota referendum

Budapest, June 15 (MTI) – Radical nationalist Jobbik leader Gabor Vona said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Viktor Orban should resign if he loses the referendum on the European Union’s migrant quota scheme.

Vona told a press conference assessing parliament’s spring session that Orban would ultimately have to take responsibility for the result of the referendum.

He regretted that the ruling parties did not consider Jobbik’s proposal to reject mandatory migrant quotas by amending the constitution.

Vona said Jobbik’s interests lie in the rejection of the migrant quota plan, adding that he, too, will vote against it.

He said the two most important topics of parliament’s spring session besides migration were corruption and Jobbik’s “real national consultation” programme as part of which the party held hundreds of public forums and meeting with unions and institutions across the country.

Regarding the issue of corruption, Vona called the prime minister “the hotbed of corruption in Hungary” saying that Orban was “interested in nothing else but stealing and soccer”.

He said each time Jobbik tried to ask Orban in parliament about the “business dealings” of Arpad Habony, his informal advisor, Lorinc Meszaros, the mayor of his native Felcsut or Andrew Vajna, the government’s film industry commissioner, the prime minister dodged the questions.