LGBTQ+ Rights Supporters of some 30 countries are expected to attend the Budapest Pride March on Saturday, defying a police ban imposed under the law introduced this year that refuses to come in contact with young people’s non-Herrosics lifestyle.
The annual program is now a symbol of resistance to a general suppression of civil society in Hungary under the Nationalist Government of Prime Minister Victor Orban, which is facing a growing challan from the Tisja Party of Center-rights leader Peter Magyar before the next year.
European support
More than 30 embassies have voiced support for March, with European Commissioner Equality Hadja Lahbib and about 70 members of the European Parliament.
European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen has called upon Hungary officials to let the parade move forward.
Leyen wrote in a statement, “Our Sangh is one of equality and non-discrimination.” He called thesis a “core value”, which “should be honored all the time in all members.”
According to a letter sent by Justice Minister Bens Tuzson to some foreign embassies in Budapest, conducting the discovery of the program, on charges of a misunderstanding, anyone attending March, accused of a misunderstanding.
The so -called Child Protection Act that allows the ban to implement the ban, allows the policy to hand over penalty and use facial identification techniques to identify.
Civil society under pressure in Hungary
In the last decade, the government of Orban has often been in the Loggerheads with the European Union on the growing repression of civil freedom and has been freed under the guise of protecting the “Christian” values.
The ban on Pride March is seen by opponents as part of the Crackdown on Democratic Freedoms before next year’s elections, on which Orban’s government is expected to face a tough challenge from Magyar, whose party has been a pioneer in public opinion surveys.
Tisza Party, avoids taking a strong position on homosexual rights issues, yet called the government to protect anyone participating in March.
Its press office said, “Peter Magyar has asked the Hungarian officials and the police to protect the Hungarian people on this Saturday, and even on other days, even though it means that it means standing against the arbitrariness of power.” Magyar Himola has not planned the Statistand.
Edited by: Keran Burke
