On June 26, 2025, Russian -speaking media reported: according to the referendum, 95% of Hungarian citizens spoke out that Ukraine has become a member of the European Union. We checked the reliability of such publications.
“The vast majority of Hungarian citizens spoke out at a nationwide referendum against the hasty acceptance of Ukraine to the European Union,” the agency wrote TASSreferring to the statement of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “2 168 431 Citizen of Hungary opposed Ukraine’s entry into the EU, which is 95% of those who took part in the referendum. Only 5% supported the reception of Ukraine, ”he said before the Primate of the EU leaders in Brussels. Similar publications on this topic were released "Channel One", "Kommersant","Vedomosti"And other media.
Although in 2014 Hungary supported the territorial integrity of Ukraine and condemned the annexation of Crimea, soon the relationship between Budapest and Kyiv Drive. The reason for this was the adopted in Ukraine in 2017 Education Lawwho greatly limited the use of national minorities in local educational institutions. This also affected ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia. “Ukraine pierced Hungary with a knife in the back, making amendments to the law on education, which greatly violates the rights of the Hungarian minority,” - declared Then the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Siyyarto.
Since the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Hungary has adopted Almost 2 million refugees. Near 40,000 Of these, they received temporary protection status in the country, the rest went further to other EU countries, or returned to Ukraine. In parallel, the Hungarian government has repeatedly blocked Help Ukraine And her Introduction to the EU.
On the latest issue, the Hungarian government and Spent The so -called referendum, which is actually not such. Conducting referendum regulated by the Hungarian constitution. To launch the procedure, you need to collect signatures of 200,000 voters (for a compulsory referendum) or 100,000 voters and the president of the country (for an optional referendum). The subject of a referendum can only be a question related to the competence of the parliament, and the national election commission previously approves of the formulation on the ballot.
The last time such a national referendum took place in Hungary on April 3, 2022, one day from parliamentary elections. He was dedicated to the question Protection of children from "propaganda LGBT". That referendum was recognized as invalid, since no matter how much the required threshold of 50% of real votes was achieved on any issue: many voters Boycoted a referendum or spoiled the ballots.
The procedure that Orban spoke of in his speech on June 26 was not a referendum, but the so -called National consultation. This is a survey of citizens of the country, which is fully controlled by the government: to conduct it does not need to be put forward and collect signatures, it is not necessary to certify questions from the election commission, etc. The results of national consultations do not create any legal obligations for state bodies, but the Hungarian government actively Uses There are to explain one or another of their steps.
The voting process itself in national consultation also differs from referenda. No need to come to polling stations - the ballots are sent to voters on mail, they can be sent back in the envelope attached for this with prepaid shipping. Also, during national consultation, you can vote online (in 2025 this opportunity used Almost 250,000 people).
In addition, the number of voters who voted against Ukraine’s entry into the EU is not quite correct in many publications. According to the results published by the Hungarian government, in the national consultation of 2025 2,284,732 people took part (and 95% of them voted against). However, this is It is Only about 29% of the total number of voters of Hungary.
Thus, the vote in which Hungarian citizens expressed their opinion on Ukraine’s entry into the EU is incorrect to call a referendum. 95% of the voters really spoke out against, but less than a third of all Hungarian voters took part in the national consultation.
Photo on the cover: screenshot kormany.hu
Read on the topic:
- Did Zelensky say that Ukraine is ready to join the United States instead of Texas?
- Did Politico write that they plan to divide Ukraine as Germany during the Cold War?
- Is it true that the Hungarian intelligence services prevented the attempt on Viktor Orban, organized by Ukrainian intelligence?
If you find a spelling or grammatical error, please inform us of this, highlighting the text with an error and by pressing Ctrl+Enter.
