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Budapest - 02 October 2016
1. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arriving for media conference
2. Wide of Orban on stage
3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"The (European) Union's proposal is to let the migrants in and distribute them in mandatory fashion among the member states and for Brussels to decide about this distribution. Hungarians today considered this proposal and they rejected it. Hungarians decided that only we, Hungarians, can decide whom we want to live with."
4. Cutaway camera
5. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"This is about the future of Hungary, probably the most important issue of the years ahead, the future of our children and grandchildren. Who we live with, what will happen to our culture, what will happen to the lifestyle we have had until now, our economic system brought back on its feet with great difficulties and what will happen to our Christian roots."
6. Cutaway screen
7. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
"Here is a modern mass migration in the world. Its waves have visibly and painfully reached Europe. The question now is what will the European Union's answer be."
8. Orban leaving the stage
STORYLINE:
Low voter turnout invalidated Hungary's referendum on European Union refugee quotas, even though citizens voted overwhelmingly in support of the government's opposition to any future, mandatory EU schemes to relocate asylum-seekers.
The government claimed a "sweeping victory" while analysts said that the result was an "embarrassing but not totally catastrophic defeat" for Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
"Hungarians today considered this proposal and they rejected it. Hungarians decided that only we, Hungarians, can decide whom we want to live with," Orban told supporters after results were known.
The referendum asked: "Do you want the European Union to be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary even without the consent of Parliament?"
With 99.25 percent of the votes counted, more than 3.2 million voters, or 98.3 of those who cast valid ballots, backed the government.
But turnout stood at 43.9 percent, the National Election Office said. Fifty percent plus one vote was needed for the referendum to be valid.
While the referendum has no binding legal consequences for the EU, Orban hoped its passage would increase pressure on Brussels.
Orban, who wants individual EU member nations to have more power in the bloc's decision-making process, said he hopes anti-quota referendums would be held in other countries.
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