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The mayor of Budapest announced, Monday, June 16, take charge of the organization of the pride march scheduled for the end of June, hoping to avoid a ban on the event under a recent law of the Government of Viktor Orban. “Everyone is welcome at Budapest Pride on June 28, which will be a municipal event. So we don't need official authorization ”declared the elected ecologist of 50, Gergely Karacsony, In a video published on Facebook.

The nationalist Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has hindered the rights of LGBT+ persons for years in the name of “Child protection”and crossed a CAP by having a law adopted, in March, a law aimed at banning any rally which would violate the legislation of 2021 prohibiting evoking with minors “Homosexuality and sex change”.

A constitutional amendment has been approved in stride to assert “The primacy of children's right to correct physical, mental and moral development on any other right”including that of gathering.

“It's our constitutional law”

According to the government, the march must be organized in a specific place out of the eyes of the children. The organizers would therefore have exposed themselves to the risk of a prohibition at their formal request for authorization from the parade in the streets of Budapest.

Hence this decision of the municipality to take over, “In full respect for the legislation in force” authorizing the city to organize cultural events without referring to the police. “Together with Budapest, we will protect” the LGBT+ community but also “Those who are afraid and keep silence, civil society” As a whole, Hegedus, spokesperson for the Marche des Pride, reacted. “It is our constitutional right to bring us peacefully. »»

After the vote of the new legislation, thousands of people demonstrated in the capital to protest against this new hardening of LGBT+rights, which also arouses the concern of Brussels and many countries of the European Union. Several European deputies have planned to join the procession.

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