The Hungarian government, ultra -rightist, has raised legal changes to prevent the annual LGTBIQ+ pride march from being carried out in the “same public form” that until now, as reported by a senior official cited by the AFP agency.
The Cabinet never supported this type of “events,” said Gergely Gulyas, chief of gabinet of the prime minister, to journalists. But “the maneuver margin was not wide enough” to impose a prohibition, which goes in the line of suffocation to the homosexuals of Orban himself, one of his greatest European partners.
“We believe that the march of pride in the city center, now that the US ambassador can no longer lead it, should not be tolerated by the country,” added the spokesman.
The former United States in Hungary, David Pressman, a constant critic of the Orban government, regularly participated in the pride march along with other foreign diplomats. Pressman left his post last month before Trump’s D -administration assumed the position.
Last week, Orban suggested the possibility of prohibiting the event in his annual speech on the State of the Nation. The Government must present a constitutional amendment, prioritizing the need for child protection and, on that basis the current format of the progress of pride could be prohibited, he added. In that reform, it is also established that there are only two genres, male and female, in a text that places the woman’s man ahead. As USA has done.
The Executive may govern by decree, opening the possibility of sporting citizens who have dual nationality, claiming the cause of national security, also indicates .
As he says in the project presented, the western world increasingly attacks the norms that were previously explained for themselves, especially the institution of the family and national identity. The modification is responding to these challenge.
Hungary restricted LGTBIQ+ rights in recent years to “protect children”, but the march still attracts thousands of people. The organizers claim that they will continue with the preparations for the 30th edition of Budapest’s pride planned on June 28.
In a statement, they condemned the politicization of the matter at a time when people face basic problems such as the cost of living. “The government’s task should not be even more the basic freedoms of the Hungarian people, but to find real solutions,” the statement added.
Orban’s co -religionists of Fidesz, along with their KDNP party partners, have a parliamentary majority, so there is no expected problems for this new proposal to prosper.
