He said this at a meeting of parliament.
“Now we have launched national consultations, where the Hungarian people can directly express their opinion on the sanctions, (state) whether they support the introduction of new sanctions or not,” RIA Novosti quotes Orban.
Hungary is the first country in Europe to launch such a procedure, he stressed.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said that Budapest will not support the European Union's anti-Russian sanctions, which would pose a threat to Hungary's energy supply system.