Posted on 10/02/2016 9:35:24 PM PDT by Innovative
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has declared victory in a referendum on mandatory EU migrant quotas, despite a low turnout that appeared to render it invalid.
Nearly 98% of those who took part supported the government's call to reject the EU plan.
But only 43% of the electorate voted, short of the 50% required to be valid.
A government spokesman said the outcome was binding "politically and legally" but the opposition said the government did not have the support it needed.
Mr Orban urged EU decision makers to take note of the result and said he would change Hungary's constitution to make the decision binding.
But a government spokesman said the result could not be regarded as invalid.
"The government initiated the referendum, so both politically and legally the outcome is binding," he said.
"The 50% would have made a difference because parliament could have no alternative but to make a decision. But parliament is behind the government regarding the decision. This is a reinforced mandate for the government."
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I like this Orban guy
Yes, Orban is great and not afraid to do the right thing.
As an aside, he is rooting for Trump.
Even better. I hope they get to work together. The American people need freedom-loving allies, especially those that reject Islam.
As I understand it, the “Yes” voters affirmatively boycotted the vote, and therefore should be considered as having expressed their opinions.
Had they voted, the electorate would have been well over the required 50%.
It’s a de facto majority “Yes”.
I dont get it. If the people wanted this to pass THAT badly and the VAST majority were against it, why didn’t more than 50 percent show up?
The “No” voters boycotted the election.
That’s what I mean. I thought in a country like this there would only be a handful.
For the EU, it’s all a bad sign of where this is going. If you have two or three more of the 28 members who do the same ballot and get more than 90-percent of the public in agreement, then the EU’s authority is stripped in public. The blame? It leads back to Merkel and the belief that the EU members could be pushed into doing something that they fundamentally disagreed with.
You are correct. Another handful, say 10%, would have brought the number well over 50%.
This was their strategy. Deny the mandate by boycotting the vote. The revolutionaries are very clever in using the law for radical change.
Because the people who knew they’d lose chose to not vote to deligitimize the outcome. In other words, they opted for a 98-2 outcome with less than 50% turnout rather than a 65-35 loss with a 70% turnout that they can’t claim is illegitimate.
And every country, including us, gets too lazy on voting days!!
I know I do for locals because in this district the republican always wins. And is usually very conservative.
That’s a ###tty reason. I’m LAZY.
I WILL VOTE for Trump even though that voice comes up that says “NY is a lost cause”.
SO WHAT? It’s still my right and lots of guys died or are suffering horribly to protect that right.
“And every country, including us, gets too lazy on voting days!!”
Very true. But have you looked around at the people you pass on the street? What do you expect?
When people no longer believe in voting, Civil War ensues.
Really dirty on the part of the traitor wing to try to delegitimize the referendum just because they knew that their numbers were too few to win. I guess the next steps are to try to con people into thinking that you don’t get to vote against moslemization if its proponents don’t bother to turn up, followed by running off to some (EU?) court to have some black robed tyrant overrule their national government, but they will only cause even more resentment by doing that.
Really, it’s virtually impossible for them to win. Assuming that only the moslemists didn’t bother to vote, they would have had to get 85% turnout just to scrape a majority. Even places with compulsory voting don’t always get turnout that high, and taking the 62% turnout from the last election in Hungary they would have lost 68-32 at best.
and Shrillary says that she admires Angela Merkel most among all contemporary political leaders, how revealing.....
Tactical not voting: 42% voted yes, 1% voted no, 57% didn’t vote.
If more committed no voters had voted, pushing the total above 50%, they still would have beaten badly, and would be above what, in their system, is a critical threshhold.
Organ is a great guy...heard he is supporting Trump, so we might have a few allies when President Trump wins...
What seems to be happening is that EU-NATO has become a protection racket against fear of Russia. and the price that countries (Hungary, Baltics, Poland, etc.) must pay for protection is to open their borders to millions of migrants.
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