Balázs Hidvéghi, State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, said on Friday that the number of votes submitted in the Voks 2025 referendum on Ukraine's accession to the European Union has exceeded 1.6 million.
Hidvéghi said on Facebook that "the intention to vote is steeply increasing, but the pressure on our country to give in concerning Ukraine is also growing".
"Neither Brussels, nor Kyiv, nor their servants here want Hungarians to be able to freely decide in the matter," he added.
"We still insist on having the right to decide, and nobody can take away that right from us," Hidvéghi said.
He said the referendum would continue until June 20 and encouraged everyone to cast their vote.