The Hungary Government Party presented a bill to Parliament on Monday (17) that prohibits the LGBTQ+ Pride Parade by LGBTQ+ communities and imposes fines on organizers and people attending the event Budapest held three decades ago.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticized LGBTQ+ people and promised to repress foreign independent media financing, opposition politicians and NGOs in Hungary in recent weeks, intensifying his campaign before the scheduled elections for the beginning of next year.
Orban, a nationalist who faces an unprecedented challenge of a new on -head opposition party, has intensified his attacks on the media and minorities since the inauguration of US Ally President Donald Trump.
The proposal submitted by his party Fidesz would prohibit march on the grounds that it could be considered harmful to children.
“The proposed bill changes the law governing the right of meeting stipulating that it is forbidden to hold a meeting that violates the prohibition established by the law on the protection of children,” says the legislation.
He also points out that police can use face recognition cameras to identify people who attend the event where participants march along Andrassy Avenue, a large street in the center of Budapest, the country’s capital.
Orban stated that the stop should not even worry about organizing the event this year.
The festival organizers, who say that he represents no threat to children, responded by expressing that freedom of meeting was a constitutional right.
March promoters were not immediately available to comment on the issue on Monday (17).
Orban, in power since 2010, promotes a conservative Christian agenda and in 2021 has banned what he calls “promotion of homosexuality” between children under 18, despite strong criticism of human rights groups and the European Union.
Orban’s government states that its policies – which attract the base of Fidesz voters, especially in the field – aim to protect children.
The 2021 law caused anxiety among gay, bisexual and transgender Hungarians, and the European Commission forwarded Hungary to the EU Court of Justice on this by 2022.
This content was originally published in a power party at Hungary presents a project that prohibits LGBTQ+ stop on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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