Peter Magyar's VP Finds Rejection of Migration Pact Painful

In his latest video, Peter Magyar’s vice president, Zoltan Tarr, argued that Brussels is handling migration correctly and that it is the Orban government that is at fault for refusing to let illegal migrants enter the country, the outlet Ellenpont reports. Zoltan Tarr accused the Hungarian government of having no implementation plan for the migration pact and no cooperation with other countries.

Zoltan Tarr and Peter Magyar, Vice-President and President of the Tisza Party (Photo: MTI)

Szazadveg Foundation's Europe Project found that 74 percent of respondents support stricter border protection to reduce migration. This ratio is even higher in Germany and France.

 Across the European Union, 65 percent of respondents feel that crime has increased due to immigration, and 55 percent say they do not feel safe because of migration.

Zoltan Tarr accused the Hungarian government of being "guilty" of not having an implementation plan for the migration pact and not cooperating with other countries. Under the pact, member states lose the right to deny entry to migrants, and each state must provide for illegal migrants who have already entered its territory, with those migrants being allowed to move freely while their asylum applications are being processed.

This is in addition to the pact’s mandatory redistribution mechanism, which Tarr Zoltan claims to oppose, yet the Tisza Party nevertheless supports the pact as a whole, including the redistribution mechanism.

Hungary's border fence (Photo: Ellenpont)

To date, the Hungarian government has spent nearly 800 billion forints on the construction and defense of the southern border fence, without a single euro of contribution from the European Union. Furthermore, based on a ruling by the European Court, Hungary is now facing a colossal fine, costing the Hungarian budget 1 million euros every single day.

Cover photo: Zoltan Tarr and Peter Magyar, Vice-President and President of the Tisza Party (Photo: MTI)