Hungary committed to holding migrant quota referendum in challenge to EU

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu...-idUSKCN0ZD11V

Hungary committed to holding migrant quota referendum

Ballot question is a direct challenge to EU authority, with proposed question asking: Do you want to allow the European Union to mandate the resettlement of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary without the approval of the National Assembly?

Hungarian Parliament in Budapest

Hungary will go ahead with a planned referendum on future European Union quotas for resettling migrants, a Hungarian government spokesman said on Monday.

"The government is determined, and has no reason not to hold (the vote)," spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told Reuters. "It has never been more relevant to ask what the people think."

Kovacs said President Janos Ader will have to set a date for the referendum, which Prime Minister Viktor Orban's office has previously said could be held in September or October.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs; Editing by Catherine Evans)

Absolutely fantastic.

The latest polling has 77% to 87% opposed to the EU forcing migrant quotas on Hungary.

I said this would catch on...