Orbán hails more than 2 million mailed responses in Vote 2025
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has hailed the result of more than 2 million mailed responses in the government's Vote 2025 survey on the issue of Ukraine's membership of the EU.
In a video uploaded to Facebook, the prime minister joined people in Budapest counting paper returns and thanked them, adding that a notary would soon certify them and the official results would be released later this week.
Gergely Gulyás told a regular government press briefing last week that with the referendum coming to a close, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be able to represent a national position at the EU summit that reflects its outcome.
He said the Vote 2025 ballot would have the highest or second-highest response rate of all National Consultation public surveys so far, adding that the response rate was also twice as high as in the opposition Tisza Party's survey on the topic earlier this year.
Gulyás underscored the importance of the vote, saying that the matter of whether the EU would suspend all existing regulations to force Ukraine into the bloc would have a fundamental impact on Hungary's future.
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