The Hungarian government has announced the final results of the referendum on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
The country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that 95 per cent of Voks2025 participants rejected Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
According to him, a total of 2 million 284 thousand people voted, of which 2 million 168 thousand (95%) were against Ukraine’s accession to the EU, while the remaining 5% voted in favour of supporting Ukraine. Hungary had 9.5 million people as of 2023.
“My voice has become louder and more courageous, but I will still say with the voice of more than two million Hungarians during the negotiations that Hungary does not support Ukraine’s accession to the European Union,” Orban said.
Orban initiated Voks2025 in the spring of this year. The consultative referendum ran from April to 20 June 2025. Hungarians could vote both at special polling stations and online.
Hungarian publication Telex notes that the announced number of voters is approximately 29 per cent of the electorate.
The journalists note that this was not a referendum, but an opinion poll, similar to a national consultation, which is not legally binding and can only be used as a political tool. Telex also writes that the credibility of this vote is in question, as it has already become known that a person could have voted several times in online questionnaires from different e-mail addresses.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry emphasised that Kiev respects those Hungarians who took part in these consultations, who are ready to hear their warnings and clarify the Ukrainian position.
“However, it is difficult to doubt the overall manipulative purpose of this action of the Hungarian government, which has nothing to do with the principles of democracy, openness and transparency of the will. The Hungarian government made maximum efforts to ensure the result it wanted. The consultations were accompanied by an aggressive build-up of groundless hatred of everything related to Ukraine,” the Foreign Ministry said, suggesting that the real purpose of “this anti-Ukrainian hysteria is to shift the attention of Hungarian society from the failures of the government’s socio-economic policy to an imaginary external enemy”.
Hungary, represented by head of government Viktor Orban and head of diplomacy Péter Sijjárt, has repeatedly demonstrated its favourable attitude towards the Kremlin. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Budapest has been making statements that contradict the EU’s general position on supporting Ukraine.