Opposition demands referendum be held on April 3 election day

Parties of the united opposition have demanded that their referendum on unemployment benefits and the Fudan project should be held together with the parliamentary election set for April 3. Istvan Varga, a candidate of the Democratic Coalition, said that "the government was obviously frightened" by the "huge number" of signatures supporting the referendum initiative, and insisted that it was a "democratic responsibility" of the government to allow the referendum to go ahead on the day requested.