Thousands party at Budapest Pride in clear message to Orban

Budapest introduces himself as a party town. On Saturday, the party spilled the streets and occupied in the scorching heat of summer on both shores of the Danube, in the Elizabeth Bridge and River Banks and the city center.

Between 100,000 and 200,000, young people danced and travels to the pest from Buddha.

Usually a distance that lasts only 20 minutes extends up to three hours.

The prohibition of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, many Budapest pride participants encouraged me to participate in an event where they often stay away. Last year, only 35,000 people joined.

Many posters mocked the Hungarian Prime Minister. It was like a peaceful revenge that some of them declared war in power for the last 15 years.

“In my history lesson, I learned enough to recognize a dictatorship. You don’t have to show this – Vik!” Read a handmade poster. “I’m so bored of fascism,” read someone else.

T -shirts with bright eye shadow and lipstick orban’s image were everywhere.

While the LGBT community with its live equipment was the core of the walk, this year’s pride has become a celebration of human rights and solidarity.

“We don’t seem to be fully prohibited!” Mayor of Gergely Karaxony, the Mayor of Budapest, told the crowd in a speech in front of Budapest Technical University.

Today’s march can fall as the crowning moment of his political career. A municipal building died of hunger and dare to host an event that the government was trying to ban in a constant struggle with the central government, and at least won for now.

“Actually, we are making a peaceful and freely big, fat show for a inflated and hateful power. The message is open: they have no power on it!” Karaxtya continued.

Among the participants, Fenin MEP Li Anderson, who thought that Orban used as an excuse to ban the arguments on family values.

“It is important to emphasize that the reason we are here is not just pride – this is about the fundamental rights of all of us,” he said.

The forbidden was based on a new law accepted by the Orban’s Fidesz Party by the vast majority in Parliament, subject to the 2021 Child Protection Law, which equalized homosexuality with pedophilia, and therefore banned the description or promotion of homosexuality where children could see.

The police justified a ban on the grounds that children of the children could witness this. On the other hand, the mayor stated that the activities organized by the councils did not fall under the right to parliament.

In the end, the police officers in the march hired a secret being, looking at a party where they were excluded.

In another part of the city, Orban joined the graduation ceremony of 162 new police and customs officers and the new officials of the National Directorate of Police.

Orban to the students and their families, “Order does not emerge on its own, should be created, because civilized life will be lost.” He said.

Previously, he and other leading Fidesz officials sent their paintings with their children and grandchildren to get the word “pride” back.

Alexandra Szentkiralyi, President of the Fidesz Fraction at the Budapest Council, Alexandra Szentkiralyi, published on Facebook, is a very simple “Hungary” T-shirt.

The police presence was restricted in Budapest on Saturday, but the temporary cameras that were in front of the walk and mounted on police vehicles recorded the entire event.

The March 18 law, which tries to ban the pride, gave the police new powers to use the face recognition software. Participants may be fined between £ 14 ($ 19 and £ 430.

The pro -government media was afraid of criticism of the events of the day, reflecting the explanations of Fidesz politicians that the march had a celebrating of heresy that had nothing to do with the freedom of parliament.

“In the pride of Budapest, chaos,” Magyar Nemzet declared the government’s flagship.

“The bad -fame climate activist and more recently terrorist supporter Greta Thunberg said that it was in Budapest Pride on Instagram page.”

Zoltan Kiselly, a political analyst close to the government, said, “There will be a question for these courts after the demonstration.” He said.

“If the Mayor of the Courts decide in favor of the Mayor and (pride) organizers, he can say Orban, okay, we must change the legislation again.”

However, if the courts decide for the government, the Prime Minister may be pleased with the law he pushed, despite the progress of pride.