Fidesz collects 1.15 m signatures to support PM's programme

Some 1.15 million signatures have been collected so far in support of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's seven-point programme to stop migration, ruling Fidesz communications director Balazs Hidveghi said on Tuesday. Hidveghi told a press conference that people have expressed their agreement with Orban and Fidesz in that Europe must be protected and migration must be stopped. Based on feedback so far, people consider it especially important that "handling migration should be taken away from Brussels bureaucrats" and returned to national governments, he added. Proposals that no country should be forced to take in migrants and that the EU should have anti-migration leaders have also met with full agreement among supporters, Hidveghi said.