Posted on 11/06/2015 12:06:09 PM PST by xzins
With an anti-immigrant campaign and razor-wire border fence Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reversed a slide in his party's popularity, emerging at home as a winner in the crisis that has divided Europe.
Personal approval ratings have also jumped for the man who closed down a major transit route through Hungary for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers fleeing war and poverty.
Speaking on state radio, he said Hungary was now in a "different time zone" from the rest of Europe as it has fended off the "invasion" by sealing its southern borders.
...21-year-old student Mate Sebok gave his whole-hearted support to Orban's stand. "There was no common European solution, and I believe Hungary needs to protect its own borders," he said. "A few months ago the eastern railway station was still teeming with migrants and now the country is nice and empty, luckily, so I think the border fence was a good measure."
Huge numbers of people, many escaping the Syrian civil war, tried to get through Hungary in the late summer on their way to seeking asylum in countries to the north, notably Germany and Sweden. Orban finally halted that flow with the border fence.
The fence on the Serbian border was completed this September, and backing for Fidesz rose to 24 percent, according to Ipsos. The party solidified its core support and attracted around 300,000 swing voters, mostly aged 30-40.
The ratings rose further in October after the fence was extended along the Croatian border, sealing the southern frontier and forcing migrants to seek different routes north.
Orban accompanied the fence building with rhetoric, saying Hungary did not want Muslims in large numbers, and people were not coming to Europe to live in safety but rather because they wanted "a German or perhaps a Swedish life".
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They built it quickly, cheaply, and effectively.
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
‘nuff said.
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Gee, protecting your borders ... why have we not thought of that? These guys must be fricken geniuses - because somehow all of the brainiacs in Washington, D.C. have not been able to break the code...
Fences protect borders? Well now.. what a concept!
Yep. It’s a new idea. You and I came up with about an hour ago.
Maybe we’ll get royalties or something. :>)
Trump/Orban 2016!
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