LGBTQ
Hungary wants to ban Pride parade
So far, Hungary has celebrated LGBTQ community with a pride parade in Budapest every year. The right -wing populist government wants to put an end to this.
The previously annual pride parades in which people demonstrate for the rights of non-heterosexual life plans are likely to be a thing of the past in Hungary. The Parliament has a law proposal by the government camp, which aims at a ban on the event. A majority should be safe from the proposal because Viktor Orban’s right -wing populist government has a two -thirds majority in parliament.
It was likely that the law would come to vote this Tuesday, since the parliament wants to decide in the urgent procedure. The Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacony announced resistance: “There will be a pride in Budapest.”
Orban had already indicated the ban in February in a speech to the nation: “The organizers of the Pride should not try to prepare this year’s move. It would be wasted time and money.”
Hungary: Software against Pride participants
In the event that the Pride parade would take place despite a ban, the fines at first threaten as a punishment. Due to the fine in the event of administrative offenses, media suspected that the maximum amount would be 200,000 forints (around 500 euros). According to the design, organizers and participants should be able to be punished. To identify participants, the use of facial recognition software should be permitted, according to the draft.
Formally, the draft is a supplement to the Assembly Act, which provides that meetings are not allowed to violate the Child Protection Act. The Pride parade has not yet been explicitly mentioned, but it is meant by this design, as also reported by government-related Hungarian media.
Since 2021, a regulation known as the Child Protection Act has banned access to information about non -heterosexual forms of life. Corresponding books, films and other media must therefore not be accessible to minors.
City hall boss: the next pride is getting bigger
The Budapest Mayor Karacony, which belongs to the left-green opposition, wrote on Facebook: “Budapest leaves those who have the courage and have had the courage, for their self-esteem, their community, their freedom and for the power of love, not abandoned. There will be a pride. It may be greater than ever before”.
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Source: Stern
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