Hungary Pride to go ahead, as PM Orban threatens ‘legal consequences’

A Budapest pride march is expected to continue on Saturday and the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is expected to challenge legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists.

Mart organizers, nationalist conservative politicians and the police hopes to be a record participation despite the pressure pressure to stop any LGBTQ material exhibition.

The police issued a prohibition in line with a new “child protection” law that restricts meetings, which are thought to encourage homosexuality. A woman said she was planning to join because she wanted the “diversity” country for her children.

Orban underestimated the possibility of violent conflicts between the police and the participants, but warned the participants about potential legal reflections.

“Of course, the police can disintegrate such events, because they have the authority to do so, but Hungary is a civilized country, a civilian society. We do not harm each other.”

“There will be legal results, but can not reach the level of physical abuse.”

The participants faced the risk of a fine of 500 € (£ 427 £ 586), and the police gave the police the authority to use face recognition technology to identify them.

Organizers can be sentenced to one year imprisonment.

34 -year -old Luca, who plans to join with her mother ENİKÖ, said that they want a “diversity” country she said they don’t have.

He continued: “We have a law that forbids people who are different from others. That’s why we are here. Because it hurts our rights. So we came.”

He told the BBC that he was worried about his four -year -old daughter’s future life “in a country where he can’t love anyone he wants”.

“He said he joined my solidarity with the LGBTQ community to express my solidarity with the LGBTQ community … Because I know what he feels like not being seen and treated as an exclusion, which is not everyone here”.

The 22 -year -old, who is not a part of the community itself, said that people come from the countryside, which is “more likely to be a hostility and being homophobic”.

EU Equality Commissioner Hadja Lahbib is expected to participate in a march in Budapest and dozens of MEPs in Budapest.

On Friday, in front of a rainbow flag symbolizing homosexual rights, the Mayor of the Liberapest released a picture with Karacely Karacely Karacely Karacely.

The pride march wrote to X, which will be a strong symbol of the power of civil society “.

Karacsonony, a member of Hungary’s opposition, did not insist that participating in the march could face any retaliation as it was organized by the town hall, and therefore a municipal activity that does not require police approval.

Before pride, the European Commission President Ursula von Der Luyen asked the government not to block the march.

Orban was unhappy by asking for EU member states to “avoid intervening in law enforcement affairs”.