Hungary's Prime minister Viktor Orbán speaks to the press as he arrives for the European Union summit in Brussels on March 17 | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images Hungary to close all but two refugee centers The move is part of a tougher policy towards asylum seekers.

Hungary plans to shutter most of its refugee reception centers and camps, leaving only two temporary camps not far from the Austrian border, according to the parliamentary leader of the country's ruling Fidesz party.

Lajos Kosa announced the closures Wednesday in parliament, saying the country only needs two centers, according to Hungarian media. He did not give a timetable.

Hungary currently has six refugee reception centers, housing about 1,200 people, according to the Asylum Information Database, which receives its numbers from Hungarian NGOs.

The two remaining temporary tent centers are located along the country’s western border, about 30 kilometers away from Austria in the towns of Kormend and Szentgotthárd, and will host around 700 asylum seekers.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been in the forefront of opposition to the EU taking in large numbers of migrants and asylum seekers.

“The goal of the [refugee] resettlement is to redraw Europe’s religious and cultural makeup, restructure its ethnic composition" and eliminate the nation state, Orbán warned earlier this week. “It is forbidden to say Brussels is craftily swallowing newer and newer slices of national sovereignty, that many in Brussels are working on a plan for the United States of Europe despite never having been asked to do so.”

Marta Pardavi, co-chair for the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, an NGO focused on human rights warned that the two camps will not be large enough.

“The 600, 700 places will surely not be enough to accommodate everyone in the Hungarian asylum system,” she said. “Just in the open reception centers there were about 1,200 people last week.”

Hungary's Office of Immigration and Nationality Services did not respond to requests for comment.

The effort to slash refugee centers comes after draft legislation published March 9, which seeks to amend the country’s asylum law. Proposed amendments include reducing time allowed in asylum detention centers from two months to one, cutting cash subsides for refugees, and eliminating all assimilation assistance for asylum seekers.

The Hungarian parliament was set to meet Friday to debate the amendments before voting on Monday, but the discussion was postponed until the outcome of the EU leaders' migration summit taking place Thursday and Friday in Brussels.