Szigetvári, co-chairman of the Together 2014 alliance, and Jávor, cochairman of the opposition Dialogue for Hungary (PM) party, had submitted the following question: “Do you agree that no new nuclear power blocks should be built in Hungary from loans which increase public debt?”

The referendum question was rejected on the ground that it is not possible to hold a referendum on an obligation contained in an international agreement. Jávor said that PM would not accept the election committee’s decision and would ask the Kúria, the supreme court, for legal remedy.

The reasoning of the committee is “absurd,” since the subject of the referendum question is not the international agreement but the future trend of Hungary’s public debt, Jávor said. In response, the ruling Fidesz said that politicians of the left-wing Unity alliance had already discredited themselves in connection with Paks.

The company operating the nuclear plant has paid 7 billion forints to a company associated with István Józsa of the main opposition Socialists and 80 million forints in ten months during the 1990s to DK leader Ferenc Gyurcsány’s firm.

In addition to having profited from Paks, the “Gyurcsány coalition” used to support the plant’s expansion with Russian technology, the Fidesz statement said.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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