GETTY Hungary could ban all migrants from permanently settling in the country under a new law

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MPs in the country's parliament will be asked to vote on a contentious constitutional change designed to reduce the number of foreigners settling in the country. The far-right opposition party, Jobbik, is set to resubmit a bill that would prevent migrants from settling in the Eastern European nation in a move which would once more put Budapest on a collision course with Brussels. Voters in Hungary recently rejected the European Union's migrant quota plan to resettle asylum seekers across all of its 28 member states, sparking a furious confrontation with eurocrats.

And now the country could be set to ruffle feathers once more with Jobbik set to resubmit a constitutional amendment was originally put before parliament last week, but failed to get the two thirds majority needed to force it through. The amendment was actually initially proposed by controversial Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, but was voted down by Jobbik because it wanted the government to scrap a controversial cash-to-live scheme in return for its support. The Hungarian government currently has a so-called residency bond system in place whereby immigrants can pay around €300,000 to become a resident, which is popular with many Chinese migrants.

GETTY Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on a collision course with the EU over migrant quotas

Mr Orban initially refused to give way to Jobbik's demand and instead said on Friday that the government would not resubmit the law. But the far-right party is now trying to change his mind. Its leader, Gabor Vona, has said that if the cash-focussed migration scheme is scrapped, he will re-table and then vote to pass Mr Orban's original constitutional change.

He said: "We have always been against the residency bonds. "With the plebiscite after the referendum we received an opportunity to raise this issue in a much more powerful way. "It is downright absurd that just two weeks ago, after an anti-immigrant campaign that cost Hungarian taxpayers 15 billion forints, the government opened a residency bond sales point in Iraq, not far from the centre of ISIS."

GETTY The Eastern European nation has taken a very hardline approach to migrants

Such a scenario would effectively make it impossible for any immigrants to settle in Hungary. Mr Vona has also repeatedly accused the government of corruption, a claim Mr Orban strongly denies.

Powerful images as migrants protest in Hungary Tue, April 4, 2017 Migrants protest outside Budapest's Keleti Railway Station after it was closed off by police to prevent people travelling on to western Europe Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 53 A migrant taunts Hungarian riot police as they fire tear gas and water cannon on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke