Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, described Monday, June 30 as “shame” on Monday, the progress of pride that met Saturday in the streets of tens of thousands of people, despite their prohibition of the police.
“I am one of those who do not consider what happened as a source of pride. (…) I say it is a shame,” he said in his first public reaction, according to the extracts published on Facebook of a television interview that will be broadcast at night.
Directed by the ecological mayor of the capital, an immense crowd paraded this weekend in a festive atmosphere in challenge to an unprecedented regression of LGBT+ rights in the EU.
The organizers estimated the number of participants in almost 200,000, an unprecedented mobilization since the creation of Hungarian pride in the 1990s.
Legislation that prohibits any manifestation that exposes minors to homosexuality
The Government had accused the opposition of having “the orders of Brussels”, “pushed to the violation of the laws they do not like, of having laughed at Hungary’s sovereignty and with the support from abroad, of having tried to impose the culture awakened.”
In power since 2010, Viktor Orban, a singer of “Iliberalism”, has continued to hinder the rights of LGBT+ people on behalf of “children’s protection” and has crossed a course this year when voting a new legislation, which has concern in Brussels and between twenty -seven years.
The text adopted in mid -March aims to prohibit any event that exposes minors to homosexuality and trans identity.
Parliament has also modified the Constitution to proclaim “the primacy of children’s right to correct physical, mental and moral development in any other right”, including the meeting.
Camar upstream had been installed and facial recognition could allow the authorities to distribute fines of up to 500 euros, while organizing or calling to participate in the walk is responsible for a year in prison. On Friday, Viktor Orban had dismissed any police intervention, while threatening homosexuals, lesbians, transgender and any other legal consequences participant afterwards.
Source: BFM TV
