Mayor will ‘come up with plan C’ if police try to impose ban on Budapest Pride | Hungary

The Mayor of Budapest promised to continue the pride of the city next weekend and declared that he would come with a plan C even if the police tried to bring a state -supported prohibition.

The Hungarian police said on Thursday that Viktor Orbán’s government referred to the latest legislation that prohibits the promotion of the same relations with the age of 18, and that the country’s main pride march forbade the march from the capital.

The police, who act within the powers of public councils, prohibit the kept of the parliament from the above and time mentioned above, ”he said.

However, the Liberal Mayor Gergely Karácsony said that the police decision of the meeting would continue by saying that the police decision would be “value” because the march did not require official permission because it was a municipal activity organized by the Municipal Assembly.

“Budapest Municipal Hall will organize the pride March as a city event on June 28th.” He wrote.

The mayor, who was re -elected last summer, is one of the hardest critics of the right -wing government’s politics. To challenge the discourse of Orbán’s Fidesz Party, he hung a LGBTQ+ and Ukraine flag on the administrative building in the center of Budapest.

In an interview with Guardian this week, before the police statement, Karácsyan said that the event would continue. “There is no law that can prohibit right now [a municipal event]”He said.” Obviously, everything can happen in Hungary. But we will find a plan C. “

Duzine MEP, a pride in the city to challenge the government and the Spanish Culture Minister Ernest Irtasun; Ireland’s old Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar; and Mayors of Amsterdam and Brussels.

In 2010, KarácSury, who was in the Hungarian Parliament as a new Green Party member, came to power in the same year, and said that the police expect the police to guarantee the security of the event. “I believe that everyone can participate in a safe way on June 28,” he said.

Since Orbán has returned to power, Hungary has passed a series of laws criticized at home and throughout the EU for restricting the rights of the country’s sexual and gender minorities on behalf of the “child protection”.

It was accepted by the Fidesz-Majority Parliament in March, and it was the last but perhaps the most obvious example of the Budapest Pride in the city for nearly thirty years.

Karácsony, who was elected mayor of the capital in 2019 and re -elected in 2024 with only a few hundred votes, insists on being sure that March is not about doing good with voters. “A good politician has a strong moral compass,” he said. “But I know that most of most of the inhabitants of Budapest agree with me.”

At a time when the Hungarian LGBTQ+ community is increasingly involved, Karácsony clearly supported LGBTQ+ rights. The government was among the speakers in Budapest Pride in 2021 after a law under the age of 18 for prohibiting the “demonstration or promotion of homosexuality”.

The support of the mayor’s support to liberal views, US billionaire George Soros, has gained the anger of the authoritarian populist government, who described it as a various agent for a socialist prime minister for the Biden administration and the EU.

Karácson was one of the most powerful candidates against Orbán in the last general elections in 2022. Eventually, another city mayor Péter Márki-Zay chose to run for the joint opposition with six parties. Fidesz protected a two -thirds majority in parliament, and Orbán was selected for the fourth period.

Karácson told Guardian that Orbán will not run in the 2026 general elections, which are expected to meet his most powerful rival Péter Magyar. Magyar, a conservative politician, was not proud, but spoke for people to gather.

Soci We use the power to encourage or support those who need it, Soci Sociologist KarácSony said.

It is unclear what will happen on June 28th. Orbán’ın Chief of General Staff Gerbely Gull, Wednesday, said in a statement, as the mayor said, a meeting of a pride meeting will fall under the legislation that manages the right to come together.

In his statements, the police said that any appeal against the ban should be made to the Hungarian Supreme Court within three days. The march said “cannot be done by nature without being represented by the LGBTQ+ community and said that it could be available during the 18 -year -old route.

“If there is no precise expression that the screen is not realized in the presence of people under the age of 18, the parliament will violate the ban.”