In a petition, Hungarians in England demand that the Hungarian state establish additional polling stations in 15 different British cities for next year's elections, because now it is a terrible burden to travel by train because of Orbán, who - in their opinion - "deprived them of the possibility of postal voting".  

Francesca Rivafinoli's article was published on the vasarnap.hu portal.

Well, I would really like to sympathize, because I myself was a Hungarian living abroad, even in a country where Ferenc Gyurcsány even closed the embassy. Thus, it was necessary to travel approximately six hours to vote - but the most memorable torture was the 2010 election, when the first round was held at the foreign missions (according to the rules of the time) a week earlier, exactly on Easter Sunday.

The last time you could vote in the United Kingdom was three times as many cities as in 2010, but if someone in England really means a "huge expense" and it is a serious problem to shell out £40-£100 once every four years for a Sunday getaway to London or Manchester, or a low-cost return home (which otherwise, it can easily be combined with a subsidized dental visit), then let us know, we will be happy to start a charity collection for you. It should not depend on this, so that every right-winger in Bristol can vote for Gyurcsányé.

Of course, it is a fact that traveling is tiring, but anyone who has moved abroad while keeping their home address has essentially signed a tacit declaration of intent: of course, they will undertake the occasional trip. That's why he definitely needs a permanent residence at home. So how can you make a responsible decision about individual constituency candidates if you only see as much of your home country as you read on 444 in your rental property in Exeter?

In any case, it is a fairly convincing sign of lack of information that of the petition and the relevant commentators firmly believe that Fidesz wickedly took away the possibility of voting by mail from those working abroad. "Take away" can obviously be something that was previously there - the same cannot be said about voting by mail.

But of course, how would the expat from Albion be aware of this, if Hírclikk also explains to him in bold letters that the Orbán government "thoroughly made it difficult for them to vote". With what? Now, any of them can decide to return their address card with a single move, and they can now resort to voting by mail. Yes, if this is not an option, because then you could only vote for the party lists, then the trip remains. You can't have your cake and eat it, as the old wise saying goes. Or-or.

Anna Donáth's statement were true , that many people were "forced" to leave Hungary because the Orbán system became "unbearable" for them, then it would not even arise that the willingness of Hungarians in England to vote should be increased with a ballot box brought to their city. Those who live in exile and wonder when the NER will finally disappear will obviously not be deterred from voting by the fact that they have to take a train from Brighton in 1 hour and 8 minutes (with a return ticket roughly equivalent to an hourly wage) to the embassy in London. Of course, it would be appropriate to prevent the long queues in front of the building (with proper organization), but this is also not something that Fidesz afflicts the global citizen with. However, according to the narrative, no one fled to the west at that time - yet there were patiently lined up in good numbers of "voters in their twenties and thirties".

the full article here .

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