Visitors to the forbidden rainbow march overwhelmed the streets of Budapest and fully filled Deacovo Square near the town hall. According to the Hungarian media, tens of thousands of people marched through the city. The organizers of the 30th year of Pride in the Hungarian capital estimated at almost 200,000.
In addition to the Hungarians, politicians also participated in ordinary persons from different countries, including Slovakia. Budapestou has been running a number of foreign license plates.
And all this, despite the fact that the police banned the march on the basis of an amendment to the Act on Acquisition, which passed through the Hungarian Parliament in March this year. Mayor Budapest Gergely Karácsony announced in response that the police could not ban the city action, which the authorities disagreed with. There were therefore concerns how today’s gathering would turn out and whether there would be no violence and detention. According to available information, this was not the case.
The participants did not discourage the risk of a fine of up to EUR 500 and the organizers or the threat of prison. They went to the streets, the center of Budapest passed in the huge crowds and the police did not prevent them from doing so. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, although on Friday, June 27, announced that this would happen, but at the same time warned against the “legal consequences” for the participants.
The anti -Imonian were smaller than the organizers feared
Several small anti -monstation was held in Budapest on Saturday. There were warnings or concerns about possible violent actions, but according to the available information, a negligible number of people eventually came to them.
Partial “success” was recorded by the Hungarian radical movement of Hazánek – “our homeland”. This blocked the Bridge of Freedom, where the march was originally supposed to go. In the end, however, the visitors did not even choose and the organizers took away the crowd in a different direction – to Elizabeth’s Bridge. Pride had a non -violent, smooth course.
Minority?
“No one expected, even in the wildest dreams that there would be so much,” the Hungarian portal quoted one of the moderators of Ildikó Kovalcsik. When the crowd went through the Budapest Boulevard, he stopped at the local Technical University under the prepared stage, where the words of several people known on the Hungarian liberal scene, including the mayor of Budapest, were heard. The final event of the march was delayed for a few hours for a huge crowd.
Today, tens of thousands of people in Budapest were not only with rainbow flags, but also a variety of banners criticizing Viktor Orbán. “Sorry, but you didn’t look like people who are banned here,” said the mayor of Hungary’s capital Karácsony in his speech. “They showed their butts of arrogant, hateful power,” he said.
Politicians and mayors of cities from abroad also spoke on the stage. Meanwhile, the radicals of the Hazánek have filed a prosecutor’s office in which they claimed that the police themselves had not illegally allowed them to block the Szent Gellért embankment. They claim that “the government conservative and children’s protection policy has completely collapsed on the day,” the Hungarian media informed.
