"I am convinced that the government is responding to the public mood. We cannot agree [to quotas] in contradiction of the people's will," Orban told reporters in the Hungarian capital, as quoted by the Hungarian Heti Vilaggazdasag weekly, without elaborating on a possible date for the vote.
On September 14, 2015, European interior ministers adopted a mechanism to relocate some 40,000 refugees residing in Italy and Greece throughout the bloc’s 28 members on an equitable basis at an extraordinary meeting.
About a week later, the bloc's interior ministers agreed to relocate some 120,000 asylum seekers, currently in Greece, Italy and Hungary, to other EU member countries under a mandatory quota system in an attempt to ease the burden on the union’s frontier states.
Hungary is one of the four Visegrad Group (V4 group) states, along with Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, which opposes the implementation of the EU mandatory quota scheme to share thousands of refugees within the 28-nation bloc.
