Grave in the constitution the existence of only male or female genres and the primacy of children's rights over all the others: the Hungarian parliament adopted on Monday April 14 an amendment to further restrict the freedoms of LGBT+people. Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had promised in March “A big Easter cleaning” against his rivals taxed with “Bugs”also had a text adopted on the binationals, deemed “Traitors to the nation”.
Bane of power of power, 94 years old billionaire George Soros, born in Budapest and naturalized American, could pay the price. Before the vote of this revision approved by a large majority of 140 votes against 21, a few dozen protesters blocked the entrance to Parliament. They were quickly dislodged by the police forces, mobilized in number.
“When we tried to hinder the first overhaul of the Constitution”in 2011, “We would never have thought of being there fourteen years later”commented on the opposition deputy, Timea Szabo. In the hemicycle, elected officials deployed a banner as a sign of protest, while outside the building of the demonstrators chanted: “We won't let ourselves” transform into “Putin Russia”.
An “unprecedented measure in international law”
Echoing a decree signed by the American president, Donald Trump, the Hungarian Constitution will now specify that a person is “Either a man or a woman”. Another text subject to the vote on Monday, that affirming “The primacy of children's right to correct physical, mental and moral development on any other right”. The government thus intends to strengthen the legal basics of the prohibition of the march of pride, decided in the name of “Child protection”.
Since the approval, mid-March, of this law, the capital lives at the rhythm of the demonstrations: thousands of people parade and block bridges for hours each week, and, on Saturday, a crowd protested in gray to symbolize the desired uniformity according to its opponents by Viktor Orban.
In the viewfinder also, the binationals that would threaten security by interfering in domestic affairs “Under the cover of NGOs and media saying independent”. According to the text, “The citizenship of a Hungarian holder of another passport could be suspended”with the exception of European Union nationals and some other European countries. A maximum duration of ten years is planned, with an expulsion to the key for those residing in Hungary.
Thirty lawyers have denounced a measure “Unprecedented in international law”who can “Constitute a form of inhuman banishment and treatment”. As for the opponent of Péter Magyar, whose Tisza party runs in mind according to several surveys, he is forced to a balancingist exercise. This former senior official, long married to an ex-minister of Viktor Orban, Judit Varga, turned into a virulent criticism of corruption and poses an unprecedented challenge in power. But, anxious to spare certain voters, he did not take a position on LGBT+rights.
Source: Lemonde