Tens of thousands of people, more than 100,000, according to the organizers, are demonstrated at this time in the capital of Hungary thus challenging the ultras policies of the Government of the Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, organized by the Budapest City Council to celebrate the International Pride Day. In addition, the police have authorized two marches of the extreme right that have a tour similar to that of the LGTBIQ+groups.
Participants in Budapest Pride, whose motto is Freedom and love cannot be prohibitedin the Budapest City Council park throughout the morning of this Saturday. Around 15, when the march has started, the center of the capital was crowded. The influx has been massive.
“We hope to double the number of participants last year. It may be today in the Pride of Budapest, which celebrates its 30th anniversary, there are more than 120,000 people, although I have heard people talk about larger figures,” says Mate Hegeus, one of the organizers of the Budapest Pride. “It will be the most massive pride in the history of Hungary,” he adds.
After the prohibition of the ultra -rightist government Orban, Budapest Pride has become an icon of the fight for rights, although not only of LGTBIQ+people: “It is not about pride, but to choose between good and evil,” says Bori, 50 years old. It is from Budapest and has been going to the march two decades. On this occasion he comes with his mother, Aniko, 76: “This march is very important so that rights and freedom are no longer limited in Hungary,” says the woman, which is the first time she goes to a demonstration of pride.
Heat is powerful in the center of the capital of Hungary: 35 degrees are exceeded. The atmosphere is also warmed by the call for at least two extreme right concentrations (of the HVIM group and my hazan political formation, even more to the right of Fidesz, the Orbán party), although two other groups said yesterday that they would join the protest. “We will not allow the propagandists LGBTQ+ march freely,” said Előd Novák, vice president of my hazánk (our homeland movement) in a message posted this morning on Facebook.
In front of the City Council Park, exit point of the progress of pride, a small group of extremists, all very young, chanted songs, but immediately were deafen by the voices of pride attendees
“We organize this because nobody should be discriminated against,” said the mayor of the capital, Gergely Karáscany, of the Parbeszéd Green Party, shortly before leaving the City Council to put in front of the march, which has started a little earlier than expected. In their wake, attendees applauded and cheered.
“Many of the things we believed as Europeans are today the objective of forces that want to separate Europe, who want to create laws and dividing narratives so that we cannot be strong together,” said Budapest’s pride director.
Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy has remarked that: “We are fighting for the soul of Europe.” He has been in the capital of Hungary for a couple of days, accompanied by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, in addition to a various Spanish delegation formed by, among others, the socialist deputy Víctor Gutiérrez; the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni; a delegation of the Parliament of Catalonia or representatives of more Madrid. Irene Montero, former Minister of Equality, or Ada Colau, former mayor of Barcelona, have also attended.
“International solidarity is overwhelming,” said the mayor before starting the walk. In the capital are also the EU Equality Commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, (which has not been left); the vice president of the European Parliament, the Romanian Nicolae ștefanuta; 72 Eurodiputados, socialist and democratic families, the left, the Greens and Renew, and two representatives of the European Popular Party; In addition to defense organizations of the rights of the collective throughout Europe, such as the Spanish Triangle Foundation. And 33 international embassies have shown their support for the event.
“Agradecemos is Gregory Christmas [el alcalde de Budapest] For allowing us to look at Brussels from Brussels and globalist corporations and thus live the experience of participating in a true struggle for freedom, ”said Hvim’s ultras in a statement published on Saturday morning.
In addition, and given the massive influx to forbidden pride, extremists have requested that they go to their concentration – which, unlike pride, is authorized by the Police – “White, Christian and heterosexual men and women, any person who agrees with the concept of the traditional family, with the millenary principles of normality.”
