About 90% of Slovak Town Residents Against Hosting Refugees in Locality (local referendum)

More than 96 percent of residents of the town Gabchikovo in southwestern Slovakia voted against the deployment of the undocumented migrants in their town on the local referendum, local media reported Sunday.

“The local referendum was attended by 2,603 residents of Slovak town Gabchikovo… 2,502 residents, 96.67 percent of voters, rejected the establishment of the refugee camp in the village,” Slovak online edition Teraz said.

Later on Sunday, Ivan Fenes, the mayor of Gabchikovo said that the result of the referendum was not compulsory for the government, but the residents hope to influence the final decision on the deployment of the refugee camp in their locality.

Earlier in July, Slovakia's Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said that Slovakia is ready to accept some refugees from Austria’s overcrowded refugee camps and to deploy them in Slovakia near the town of Gabchikovo.

Europe is experiencing a major migrant crisis as thousands of people flee conflict-torn regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia. According to UN data, 137,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea for Europe in the first six months of 2015.
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  3/8/15 
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• Un village slovaque s'oppose par référendum à l'accueil de migrants ...

Les habitants du village slovaque de Gabcikovo (sud) se sont prononcés par référendum dimanche contre l'accueil de 500 migrants qui doivent arriver chez eux d'Autriche en vertu d'un accord entre Bratislava et Vienne.Environ 97% des votants ont répondu par l'affirmative à la question "Etes-vous contre l'établissement d'un camp provisoire de migrants, dans le bâtiment de l'Université technique slovaque?", selon le chef de la commission électorale du référendum, Teodor Bodo. Quelque 2.600 habitants adultes de Gabcikovo sur 4.300 ont participé au vote et seulement 102 d'entre eux se sont prononcés en faveur de l'accueil de migrants, selon M. Bodo..................http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_un-village-slovaque-s-oppose-par-referendum-a-l-accueil-de-migrants?id=9045973
    3/8/15