Stable Hungarian Government with 2/3 majority
Published at: 02/09/2014 02:50 pm
Voters in Hungary have re-elected Viktor Orban and his conservative political alliance in parliamentary elections in April 2014.
Fidesz holds a total of 133 seats in the 199-seat new parliament, or 67 percent, which would give it a supermajority for the second consecutive term. This means that the Hungarian Residency Program will continue safe and undisturbed for the next four years and after. Meanwhile in other jurisdictions the new governments often change the terms or terminate the immigration programs.
For example in Canada wealthy foreigners hoping to fast-track immigration are preparing to sue Ottawa over the government’s cancellation of its immigrant investor program. The reason of the backlog of investor applications was bogging down the immigration system because the scheme was too successful. By 2012, the backlog of unprocessed applications in Hong Kong alone hit 16,340, up from just 1,645 in 2006, according to court documents. The lawyers of the applicants going to try to start a so-called class action for the investors whose files were closed. If closing down the files is struck down as illegal, it would apply to everybody. That would mean the revival of thousands of applications that were killed by the governmen of Canada in 2014.
This kind of cancellation can not happen in Hungary where the conservative government started the Hungarian Residency Program and are committed to continuing the scheme.
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