Referendum Homestretch on Hungarian Television
Below are screenshots taken from programs broadcast on the M1 news channel of state-run Hungarian Television from 3:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. on October 2, 2016—that is, until half an hour before the closing of polls in Hungary’s referendum on European Union migrant-resettlement quotas (see Hungary’s 2016 Referendum on European Union Migrant Resettlement Quotas and The Referendum That Couldn’t Fail).
Aside from intermittent weather bulletins and a report on the new leadership of the U.K. Labour Party, newscasts and programs broadcast on M1 during this three-and-a-half-hour period dealt with just two issues—the referendum results and migration.
The screenshots are from the various reports on migration. Note that in 2013, the National Assembly approved an amendment to Hungary’s electoral laws that eliminated campaign silence (source in Hungarian).
Click on any screenshot to see gallery view.
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- (1) MIGRANTS WILL DEPART IN DIRECTION OF HUNGARY IF [OUTCOME OF] REFERENDUM IS FAVORABLE FOR THEM.
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- (2) CLASHES IN GERMANY BETWEEN LOCALS AND MIGRANTS.
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- (3) MIGRATION CRISIS—LAST SUMMER THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS ENTERED HUNGARY ILLEGALLY.
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- (4) CRISIS SITUATION DEVELOPED IN LETENYE LAST SEPTEMBER.
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- (5) MIGRATION CRISIS—TENSE SITUATION DEVELOPED LAST YEAR AT BICSKE TRAIN STATION.
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- (6) MIGRANTS WILL DEPART IN DIRECTION OF HUNGARY IF [OUTCOME OF] REFERENDUM IS FAVORABLE FOR THEM.
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- (7) THERE HAVE BEEN ALMOST 300 VICTIMS OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE OVER PAST YEAR.
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- MIGRANTS IN BELGRADE EXPECT OPENING OF BORDER AS A RESULT OF [REFERENDUM] VOTE.
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- (9) MIGRANTS WILL DEPART IN DIRECTION OF HUNGARY IF [OUTCOME OF] REFERENDUM IS FAVORABLE FOR THEM.
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- (10) ACTIVISTS SUPPORTING MIGRANTS CLASHED WITH POLICE IN CALAIS.
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- (11) CHURCH IN WHICH JIHADISTS EXECUTED PRIEST TO BE REOPENED.
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- (12) NUMBER OF VIOLENT ACTS COMMITTED BY MIGRANTS ROSE IN HUNGARY LAST YEAR.
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- (13) PRICE OF REAL ESTATE HAS PLUNGED IN AREA OF SINCE-CLOSED [MIGRANT] RECEPTION CENTER IN DEBRECEN.
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- (14) MIGRANTS IN SERBIA COUNT ON OPENING OF BORDER AFTER REFERENDUM TOMORROW.
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- HUNGARIAN WOMAN WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN BY HER SOMALIAN NEIGHBORS IN LONDON.
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- (16) DEMONSTRATORS IN CALAIS DISPERSED WITH TEAR GAS AND WATER CANNONS.
Sources: screenshots 1 and 2 (00:25 and 7:31, respectively); screenshots 3, 4 and 5 (0:11, 21:40 and 25:59, respectively); screenshot 6 (0:09); screenshots 7 and 8 (0:08 and 13:54, respectively); screenshots 9,10 and 11 (0:09, 9:05 and 9:38, respectively); screenshots 12 and 13 (5:53 and 10:24, respectively); screenshots 14, 15 and 16 (17:58, 21:46 and 25:14, respectively).
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