"Right now, signatures are being collected in Budapest to force a referendum aiming to withdraw the bid," the Budapest 2024 bid committee said in an emailed statement. Although it opposes the 2024 bid, Momentum does not want to kill off the idea of Budapest hosting the Games some time in the future. "Hungary does not need an Olympic Games in 2024," Momentum chairman Andras Fekete-Gyor told Reuters in his group's headquarters in a decrepit central Budapest basement. Momentum's pop-up stands, strewn all around central Budapest, are drawing in a constant throng of people signing to demand a chance to vote. Passers by stopped at a stand in a central Budapest underpass seemingly every minute on a recent afternoon.

Source: The Star February 03, 2017 11:26 UTC