Hungary’s Viktor Orban Issues Chilling Warning Over Budapest Pride March
Budapest, 27 June (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban On Friday, the event planned for this weekend, violating the police ban and said that there would be “legal results için to organize or participate in a Budapest Pride March.
Hungarian Parliament OrbanThe right -wing Fidesz Party has a large majority, Legislation passed in March This created a legal basis for the police to prohibit LGBTQ marches on the grounds that they would replace the right to protect children. It also allows the police to use face recognition cameras to identify people who have participated in a fine and fines.
Critics see the movement of prohibiting Pride as part of a wider pressure on democratic freedoms before the general election next year. Orban Some recent opinion surveys will face a strong opposition challenge.
“I recommend your adult and everyone to decide what they want, to follow the rules … And if they don’t want to, they must face open legal consequences,” Orban He told the state radio.
He said that the police could distribute a banned incident, but that Hungary was a “civilized country ve and that the police mission was to convince people to follow the law.
Iz We are in the world in order not to make each other’s lives more difficult but easier, this is the essence of Christianity, ”he said.
Britain, France and Germany and the other 30 countries expressed support for Hungary’s LGBTQ community and the pride March on June 28, which said that Budapest will organize the liberal mayor of the city as a celebration of municipal freedom of the city.
The European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen called on the Hungarian officials to allow the pride parade to continue – – Orban In the radio interview, he looked like to receive orders from Moscow at the communist times.
“Like Moscow, he sees Hungary as a secondary country and thinks that he can order how to live from Brussels to the Hungarians, what to be loved, what should not be loved”. Orban in question.
OrbanThe government encourages a strong Christian conservative agenda and Various laws that affect the life of the LGBTQ people have passed In the last decade.
(Reporting by Krisztina; Editing by Mark Heinrich and Christopher Cushing)
