One million citizenships on grounds of ethnic kinship in Hungary

The number of persons who have been granted Hungarian citizenship on grounds of ethnic kinship. The programme has been approved by the Orban parliament in 2010. In the 2014 elections, 95% of Hungarians naturalised through ethnic kinship voted Victor Orban’s Fidesz.

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