Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Orban (R, with Deputy PM Zsolt Semjen) suffered an unusual defeat when his constitutional amendment failed to pass

Hungary's parliament has rejected an attempt by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to block the settlement of refugees.

His ruling Fidesz party failed to attract the two opposition votes necessary for a two-thirds majority in parliament.

The bill had sought to rebuff an EU-set quota scheme that would relocate 1,294 refugees in Hungary.

It was the latest move in Mr Orban's anti-EU and anti-migrant drive, say correspondents.

But he was thwarted by the anti-immigration Jobbik party, which normally would have been viewed as a natural supporter of the bill but abstained.

Jobbik had demanded Mr Orban scrap a cash-for-residency bond scheme allowing wealthy foreigners to buy special state bonds for €300,000 ($330,000) giving them the right to live in Hungary.

Jobbik argued the immigration ban should apply to all foreigners.

Mr Orban refused, calling the move "blackmail".

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Hungary sealed its borders with Serbia and Croatia after it became a transit country last year

Mr Orban called the vote in parliament after a divisive referendum on 2 October, again over the EU's 2015 resettlement scheme to relocate 160,000 refugees across the bloc.

Of those who voted, 98% - or 3.3m voters - supported Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban's call to block the quotas. But only 40.4% of voters cast valid ballots, short of the required 50% threshold.

Nevertheless, he declared victory and immediately called the constitutional vote.

Another blow for Orban - Nick Thorpe, BBC News, Budapest

This is the second blow in a month for Viktor Orban, following the failure of his 2 October referendum.

Now he can be expected to turn his guns on the Jobbik party for their "treachery" for refusing to support the constitutional amendment.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Members of Jobbik - the radical-right challengers to Mr Orban's Fidesz party - held aloft a banner during the vote, reading: "The traitor is the one who allows terrorists into the country for money"

Jobbik were prepared in advance for that accusation.

As the results of the amendment vote were announced, Jobbik deputies unrolled a banner with the words: "The traitor is the one who allows terrorists into the country for money." According to Hungarian reports, a Saudi citizen who once had business contacts with Osama Bin Laden and who is also on an FBI wanted list, bought residency in Hungary under the bond scheme.

Hungary has already refused to accept 1,294 asylum seekers requested by the European Commission. It has taken the Commission to the European Court of Justice over the case, with a verdict expected next year.

If Hungary loses, it will have no choice but to accept the 1,294. If the constitutional amendment had passed now, it would have blocked any future attempts by the EU to impose quotas on Hungary.

Jobbik has been jockeying with the Socialists for position as Hungary's second biggest party.

Mr Orban's defeat in Tuesday's vote is an unusual blow for a man whose party won a two-thirds majority in parliament when he first came to power in 2010 and has since enacted six constitutional amendments.

The setback is likely to herald a period of increasing rivalry between his Fidesz party and Jobbik.

Image copyright AFP Image caption A referendum on blocking the EU quota took place on 2 October - but turnout failed to meet the required level

Immigration is a key battleground, and the constitutional vote was a chance for Jobbik to flex its muscles, correspondents say.

"We are ready to vote for the amendment of the constitution but we are not ready for partial solutions," Jobbik leader Gabor Vona said in October. "We can only support a solution which creates Hungary's real security."

Thousands of non-EU citizens - many from the Middle East, China and the former Soviet Union - have bought residency in Hungary with the "foreigner bonds".

Jobbik says more people have come into the country under that scheme than would have come under the EU migrant quota.

But it says it remains willing to support Fidesz's constitutional amendment if it backs down and scraps the scheme. </s> Hungary’s parliament has narrowly rejected a bid by prime minister Viktor Orban to change the country’s constitution to prevent refugees being resettled there.

Mr Orban’s Fidesz party and its allies fell two votes short of the required two-thirds majority in parliament, dealing another blow to the pugnacious premier just a month after low turnout rendered invalid his referendum on the refugee issue.

The vote hinged on the far-right Jobbik party, which made good on a threat not to back Mr Orban’s bill unless he scrapped a “residency bond” scheme through which wealthy foreigners can buy the right to live in Hungary.

In a heated parliamentary session, senior Fidesz member Lajos Kosa lambasted Jobbik: “Tying support for the constitutional amendment to other conditions is tantamount to treason,” he said.

In response, Jobbik deputies unfurled a banner that read: “Traitors are those who also let in terrorists for money.” Beside the slogan, the Fidesz party logo was written in Arabic-style script and included a dollar sign.

“Neither rich migrants nor poor migrants, neither rich terrorists nor poor terrorists can come to Hungary,” said Gabor Vona, the leader of Jobbik, which is vying with the Socialists to be Hungary’s main opposition party.

After the vote, Mr Vona said that when “the government scraps the bond programme, Jobbik is ready to back the amendment of the constitution within 24 hours”.

The residency scheme allows foreigners and their families to live in Hungary in return for the purchase of a €300,000 government bond, but anti-corruption advocates say the programme is not transparent and potentially riddled with graft.

Thousands of people – predominantly from China, Russia and the Middle East – have bought the bonds, even as Mr Orban has rejected an EU refugee resettlement plan and called mostly Muslim migrants “poison” for Hungary and the EU. Last year, Hungary fenced off its southern borders to keep out refugees and migrants.

Mr Vona told parliament that “the current threat to Hungary’s security doesn’t come from EU settlement quotas, but rather from immigration made possibly by these residency bonds”.

Mr Kosa insisted the scheme involved strict vetting of all applicants, and that it was “pure idiocy to think that terrorists would come to Hungary via residency bonds”.

“It is much more dangerous to simply take a walk down the street. In fact, there is a greater chance of a shark attack than for terrorists to come via residency bonds,” he claimed.

Mr Orban, who has suffered few major parliamentary defeats in recent years, said the Fidesz board would decide whether to resubmit the bill.

In last month’s referendum, more than 98 percent of people who voted backed Mr Orban’s opposition to any EU plan to resettle refugees in Hungary.

Only about 40 percent of eligible Hungarians voted, however, rendering the result invalid.

Andrew Stroehlein, European media director of Human Rights Watch, wrote on Twitter: “First Orban fails to convince voters with his anti-refugee referendum. Now he’s failed in parliament too. Time to give up on hate, Viktor.” </s> BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister failed Tuesday in his attempt to push through constitutional amendments opposing any future plan by the European Union to resettle asylum-seekers among members of the bloc.

Lawmakers voted 131-3 in favor of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s proposal, but the governing Fidesz party failed to secure any opposition support and fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority of all 199 deputies necessary. All opposition lawmakers either voted against the proposal or abstained.

The failure to pass the five amendments, including one stating that a “foreign population cannot be settled into Hungary,” was Orban’s second major setback after an Oct. 2 referendum — in which more than 98 percent of voters supported the government’s anti-migrant position — was declared invalid because of low voter turnout.

Foreign Minister Peter Sziijarto said the EU mandatory quota scheme to resettle asylum-seekers, which has yet to be approved, “is a bad answer to the migrant crisis … and will practically lead to Europe’s ruin.”

“Today it became clear that in terms of protecting the country, the Hungarian people can only count on the government,” Szijjarto said. “Defending the country’s security and lowering the risk of terrorism are national issues … but we can’t count on the opposition parties.”

Political analyst Zoltan Cegledi said the rejection of the amendments was a “defeat of power politics” in which Orban and Fidesz were emphasizing their ability to get things done no matter what.

“The defeat puts Orban in a very difficult communications position in which he has to explain why he isn’t capable of achieving anything,” Cegledi said.

Orban’s “zero migrants” policies led Hungary to build fences last year on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia to stop the migrant flow and also resulted in draconian rules which, according to human rights groups, have practically destroyed Hungary’s asylum system. Last year, before the fences were fully in place by mid-October, nearly 400,000 migrants and refugees passed through Hungary on their way to Germany and elsewhere in Western Europe.

Orban presented the constitutional amendments as necessary to keep out large numbers of mostly Muslim asylum seekers in order to protect Hungarian independence, identity and culture.

Orban said the amendments were meant to show “that, without our consent and approval, no one can decide who we want to live with and how.”

Earlier this year, the far-right Jobbik party had proposed amendments similar to Orban’s. Fidesz rejected the idea, banking instead on the expected success of the referendum.

This time, Jobbik made its support conditional on eliminating “residency bonds” which give foreigners and their immediate families Hungarian papers in exchange for buying a five-year government bond worth 300,000 euros ($331,000). By the end of August, more than 7,500 people, including 6,405 from China and 497 from Russia, had gained residence in Hungary under the program.

Jobbik chairman Gabor Vona said the bonds, which Transparency International Hungary flagged as “the footprint of high-level corruption in the country,” were the “dirty business” of Fidesz.

“For Fidesz, dirty money is more important than the true security of the country,” Vona told reporters after the vote. “The very moment the government eliminates the bonds, Jobbik is willing to vote for the constitutional amendment even within 24 hours.”

Fidesz has said it will likely eliminate the residency bonds but rejected Jobbik’s “blackmail.”

“Tying support for the constitutional amendment to other conditions is tantamount to treason,” said Lajos Kosa, head of the Fidesz faction in parliament. In response, Jobbik lawmakers held up a huge banner after the vote saying “Traitors are those who, for money, also let in terrorists.”

Analysts expect Fidesz to keep anti-migration high on the agenda in the run-up to elections expected in April 2018.

“In xenophobia, Fidesz has found a far-right theme it can use and it works too well for it to be cast aside,” Cegledi said. </s> Hungary's prime minister failed Tuesday in his attempt to push through constitutional amendments opposing any future plan by the European Union to resettle asylum seekers among members of the bloc.

Lawmakers voted 131-3 in favor of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's proposal, but the governing Fidesz party failed to secure any opposition support and fell two votes short of the two-thirds majority of all 199 deputies necessary.

The failure to pass the five amendments, including one stating that a "foreign population cannot be settled into Hungary," was Orban's second major setback after an Oct. 2 referendum — in which over 98 percent of voters supported the government's anti-migrant position — was declared invalid due to low voter turnout.

Political analyst Zoltan Cegledi said the rejection of the amendments was a "defeat of power politics" in which Orban and Fidesz were emphasizing their ability to get things done no matter what.

"The defeat puts Orban in a very difficult communications position in which he has to explain why he isn't capable of achieving anything," Cegledi said.

Orban's "zero migrants" policies led Hungary to build fences last year on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia to stop the migrant flow and also resulted in draconian rules which, according to human rights groups, have practically destroyed Hungary's asylum system. Last year, before the fences were fully in place by mid-October, nearly 400,000 migrants and refugees passed through Hungary on their way to Germany and elsewhere in Western Europe.

Orban presented the constitutional amendments as necessary to keep out large numbers of mostly Muslim asylum seekers in order to protect Hungarian independence, identity and culture.

Orban said the amendments were meant to show "that, without our consent and approval, no one can decide who we want to live with and how."

Earlier this year, the far-right Jobbik party had proposed amendments similar to Orban's. Fidesz rejected the idea, banking instead on the expected success of the referendum.

This time, Jobbik made its support conditional on eliminating "residency bonds" which give foreigners and their immediate families Hungarian papers in exchange for buying a five-year government bond worth 300,000 euros ($331,000). Jobbik chairman Gabor Vona said the bonds, which Transparency International Hungary flagged as "the footprint of high-level corruption in the country," were the "dirty business" of Fidesz.

"Neither rich migrants nor poor migrants, neither rich terrorists nor poor terrorists can come to Hungary," Vona said in parliament on Monday.

Fidesz has said it will likely eliminate the residency bonds but rejected Jobbik's "blackmail."

"Tying support for the constitutional amendment to other conditions is tantamount to treason," said Lajos Kosa, head of the Fidesz faction in parliament. In response, Jobbik lawmakers held up a huge banner after the vote saying "Traitors are those who, for money, also let in terrorists."

Analysts expect Fidesz to keep anti-migration high on the agenda in the run-up to elections expected in April 2018.

"In xenophobia, Fidesz has found a far-right theme it can use and it works too well for it to be cast aside," Cegledi said. </s> The Hungarian parliament has approved a controversial law enabling all asylum seekers in the country to be detained and forced back into neighbouring Serbia.

Viktor Orban, the prime minister, claimed migrants were keeping his country “under siege” and must be defended against.

Speaking at a swearing-in ceremony for a group of specialist guards known as “border hunters”, he said that Hungary could only count on itself for protection.

Orban, a leader of the right-wing populist Fidesz party and a supporter of Donald Trump, has already ordered the reinforcement of fences along Hungary’s southern border and claimed refugees are a threat to Europe’s Christian identity and culture.

The new legislation will see refugees locked in border camps made of shipping containers while their cases are decided.

Applications will be declared inadmissible for anyone who entered the Hungary from Serbia or a “safe third country”, while the appeal period will be cut to just three days and migrants may have to cover the costs of their own imprisonment.

The new bill also allows authorities to detain all adult asylum seekers in its territory and summarily return those refused to the Serbian border as part of “crisis” measures in place until September.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said it was “deeply concerned” by the measure, which combines with other policies to make it “nearly impossible for asylum-seekers to enter the country, apply for asylum and receive international protection”.

“This new law violates Hungary’s obligations under international and EU laws, and will have a terrible physical and psychological impact on women, children and men who have already greatly suffered,” spokesperson Cécile Pouilly told reporters in Geneva.

“Under international and EU laws, the detention of refugees and asylum-seekers can only be justified on a limited number of grounds, and only where it is necessary, reasonable and proportionate…children should never be detained under any conditions.”

Humanitarian organisations had appealed to the European Commission to intervene to block the draft bill, saying it was “at odds with EU, human rights and refugee law” in a letter last month.

The law “On the amendment of certain acts related to increasing the strictness of procedures carried out in the areas of border management,” allows adult asylum seekers including families with children and unaccompanied minors above the age of 14 to be jailed.

It reinstates Hungary’s previous practice of detaining asylum applicants, which was suspended in 2013 under pressure from the European Union, the UNHCR and the European Court of Human Rights.

The provision to allow authorities to round up migrants and forcibly return them over the Serbian border expands a previous law permitting the push-backs within five miles of the boundary.

“The European Commission should not stand by while Hungary makes a mockery of the right to seek asylum,” said Benjamin Ward, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division at Human Rights Watch.

“Using transit zones as detention centres and forcing asylum seekers who are already inside Hungary back to the Serbian side of the razor-wire fence is abusive, pointless, and cruel.”

The law was approved amid continuing reports of abuse by border police, with migrants claiming to have been beaten, filmed and photographed in “selfies” with officers.

An estimated 7,000 asylum seekers are currently stranded in dire humanitarian conditions in Serbia while waiting to cross, with only a handful allowed through two designated transit zones a day.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed into Hungary on their way from the shores of Greece to western Europe but the right-wing government has spared no expense to stop their journeys.

The crackdown is intensifying despite a dramatic fall in the number of refugees journeying to Hungary after the EU-Turkey deal was implemented a year ago to prevent boat crossings to Greece.

Thousands of guards have been deployed to patrol the country’s 100-mile southern border with Serbia, where soldiers and prison inmates are expanding a barbed wire fence into an electrified 13ft barrier.

A spokesperson for the European Commission told The Independent: “We will be analysing the bill when we have been notified by Hungarian authorities but we do not have any further comment to make at this time.” </s> Orban and his ruling Fidesz party had introduced the anti-migrant bill in response to the European Union resettlement plan and a specific EU quota to allow a reported 1,294 refugees to relocate to Hungary.

But radical right-wing Jobbik party politicians boycotted the vote Tuesday, leaving the proposed constitutional amendment short of the required two-thirds majority, Balint Gyorgy, deputy head of the parliament press office, told CNN.

Marton Gyongyosi, a Jobbik member of parliament, told CNN that his party -- which would normally have voted to back the amendment -- abstained from the vote because of a 2012 government initiative that essentially equates to a cash-for-residency scheme.

Jobbik firmly opposes these so-called "government bonds," which party members say are sold to foreigners who can prove they have €300,000 (just over $331,000) or more. These foreigners are then given residency in Hungary.

Gyongyosi said that so far, more than 7,000 such bonds had been sold. "We have said that of course we are against the resettlements to Hungary by Brussels and we are against migration quotas, but we are equally against migrants to Hungary who perhaps have €300,000 to spend," Gyongyosi said. "If you want to say 'No' to poor ones, you have to say 'No' to rich migrants. "The reason why we did not press the 'no' button is only up to the fact that the government has created the loophole through which it can sell out residency through money," he added. The result of Tuesday's vote will be a blow for the Fidesz party and Orban, who has vowed to defend Hungary from forced migration policies from the European Union. "The vote today demonstrated that for all opposition parties, especially for Jobbik, the issue of national sovereignty and the struggle against compulsory quota proposed by the European Commission comes only after their party-political considerations," said Zoltan Kovacs, spokesman for the Hungarian government, in an email to CNN. "For us, retaining elements of national sovereignty that have never been handed over to any European institution is and should be a national cause, a 'national minimum' if you like, that cannot be sacrificed for any political consideration." Hungary wants its people to hate refugees He added that Fidesz will make a decision on further steps later Tuesday, including the possibility of resubmitting the constitutional amendment again in the future. In October, Hungarians voted on the issue of EU quotas in a referendum, overwhelmingly rejecting them. But low voter turnout (43.7%) meant the result was not legally binding. "Can a democratic community [the EU] force its will to a member where 92% [of the voters] is against it? I promise, I will do everything so this can never ever happen," Orban said last month. </s> Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Hungarian government has previously rejected UN claims that it uses excessive force to expel migrants

Hungary's parliament has approved the automatic detention of all asylum seekers in container camps at the country's borders, prompting "deep concern" from the UN Refugee Agency.

The legislation was approved by a large majority of lawmakers.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was a response to recent terror attacks in Europe carried out by migrants.

Speaking at a swearing-in ceremony for 450 new border police, he said Hungary was "under siege".

"The migration flow has only slowed, but it is not over," Mr Orban said. "We have gained time to strengthen our lines of defence."

He called immigration "the Trojan horse of terrorism", adding: "If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally".

The prime minister said the arrival of Muslim migrants endangers Europe's Christian culture and identity.

"Those readying for the journey do not want to live according to our ways and culture, but according to their own - only with a European quality of life," he said in Budapest.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has fought a long battle to keep out migrants

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The Hungarian government has rejected accusations it used excessive force to expel migrants

Under the new measures, all asylum seekers entering Hungary - and those currently in the country - will be confined in camps built from shipping containers while their asylum applications are processed.

Appeals against rejected applications will be fast-tracked, and those denied entry may have to cover their own detention costs.

Human rights groups including Amnesty International have raised grave concerns about the crackdown, calling it "xenophobic, fear-mongering propaganda".

"There are hardly 400 asylum seekers in the country," said a statement issued by seven groups, including Amnesty International Hungary, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and MigSzol, the Migrant Solidarity Group of Hungary.

Gauri Van Gulik, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Europe, said the move was "beyond the pale".

"These measures will even be applied to children, a flagrant violation of international and European law," she said.

"Dumping all refugees and migrants into containers isn't a refugee policy - it's avoiding one."

The UN Refugee Agency said it was "deeply concerned" about the detention of asylum seekers.

"This new law ... will have a terrible physical and psychological impact on women, children and men who have already greatly suffered," it said in a statement.

Hungary's nationalist prime minister has maintained a hardline stance on migration for some years.

In 2015, when the country became a transit state for asylum seekers en route to Germany and other EU nations, he responded by building razor wire fences on the borders with Serbia and Croatia.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Hungary already has razor wire fences on the borders with Serbia and Croatia

Some 400,000 migrants passed through Hungary that year before the fences were in place.

A second, 150km (93 mile) fence on the Serbian border is scheduled for completion in May, equipped with night cameras and heat and movement sensors.

In October last year, Hungary held a referendum on whether to accept mandatory EU quotas for relocating migrants.

The EU had asked it to accept 1,294 refugees.

The referendum was ultimately invalid, as while 98% of those who took part wanted to reject the EU plan, the turnout fell short of the required 50% threshold.

In 2016, Hungary registered 29,432 asylum claims and accepted just 425 asylum seekers.

By contrast, Germany took in 280,000 in 2016. </s> Hungary's parliament on Tuesday approved the automatic detention of all asylum-seekers in container camps at the country's southern borders, brushing off concerns from rights groups.

The legislation, approved by a large majority of lawmakers, is in response to recent terror attacks in Europe carried out by migrants, according to hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

All asylum-seekers entering Hungary as well as those currently in the country will be detained or moved to the container camps.

There they will be prevented from moving around Hungary or leaving the country while their applications are processed, unless they are going back over the border to Serbia.

"In the future, illegal immigrants must wait for the verdict on their asylum case in designated transit zones at the border," read Tuesday's bill, published on the Hungarian parliament's website.

It reinstates Hungary's practice of detaining asylum applicants, which it suspended in 2013 under pressure from Brussels, the UN refugee agency and the European Court of Human Rights.

Amnesty International said in a statement last month that the new rules "disregard EU guiding principles that it is forbidden to detain someone on the basis that they have claimed asylum".

"Elderly, sick people as well as families with children may also be detained (in the containers)," the rights group said.

The bill is the latest element of a tough anti-immigration stance by Orban -- who has called immigration "poison" -- which has long been slammed by rights groups as inhumane.

As well as building militarised razor wire fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia in 2015, Hungary has handed thousands of migrants expulsion orders for "illegal border-crossing" and even jailed some.

It has also gradually been closing down its network of refugee camps, while allowing only a trickle of asylum-seekers into the existing transit zones.

According to the government, 1,004 people have applied for asylum in Hungary so far this year.

According to government officials, the new border camps will comprise converted shipping containers built onto existing "transit zones" erected in 2015 at the southern border with Serbia.

The government says the new legislation will protect both Hungarian and EU citizens.

It says migrants have been abusing the previous rules and leaving Hungary before a verdict is reached, exposing the bloc to the risk of terror attacks.

"Any legal regulation that facilitates terror acts must be changed in the interests of our own self-defence," Orban said in January.

The 53-year-old Orban, a strong admirer of US President Donald Trump, has long taken a hard line on immigration.

He has said that a large influx of Muslim migrants into Europe poses a security risk and endangers the continent's Christian culture and identity.

Budapest has refused to take part in an EU scheme to share around the EU the hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the bloc in recent years.

Another change in law last year enabled police to physically push back to Serbia anyone caught in Hungarian territory within eight kilometres (five miles) of the border.

The interior ministry was forced Monday to defend police against accusations of brutality against migrants, made in a newspaper article by medical aid organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

The ministry "repeatedly and categorically rejects the unverified allegations," said a statement. </s> UN refugee agency says automatic detention measure violates the country’s obligations under international law.

Hungary's parliament has approved the automatic detention of all asylum seekers in container camps at the country's southern borders, despite a fierce backlash from human rights groups.

Under the new legislation, asylum seekers entering Hungary and those already in the country will be detained or moved to the container camps.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the measure was needed as a response to "terror" attacks in Europe, citing the November 2015 attacks in Paris.

The move reinstates Hungary's practice of detaining asylum applicants, which it suspended in 2013 under pressure from human rights groups.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, immediately criticised the measure.

"This new law violates Hungary's obligations under international and EU laws, and will have a terrible physical and psychological impact on women, children and men who have already greatly suffered," the UNHCR said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Orban ordered the reinforcement of fences on the country's southern border.

Work began last week on a second border fence and the right-wing government extended a state of emergency that gave authorities additional powers to secure the borders. Hungary had previously built a fence on its borders with Serbia and Croatia in September 2015.

In October last year, the majority of Hungarians voted against an EU referendum aimed at sharing 160,000 refugees around the 28-member bloc through mandatory quotas.

It has since not accepted any asylum seekers allocated under the scheme.

Hungary granted asylum, or some form of protection, to 425 people out of 29,432 applications in 2016.
The National Assembly rejects Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's bill to block the settlement of refugees in Hungary. The far-right Jobbik party abstained from the vote, arguing the immigration ban should apply to all foreigners, and not just refugees.