PM Orbán revealed some important details about the Pride-ban law
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talked about the controversial Pride law the Hungarian Parliament accepted this week amid smoke bomb explosions. He revealed when and how the police will use the new rules provided the Budapest Pride 2025 is organised.
Budapest mayor confident about Pride 2025
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony seems confident about the Budapest Pride 2025, a march of LGBTQ+ individuals and supporters on the Hungarian capital’s main avenue, Andrássy Street. He said Budapest was a community that accepted and supported LGBTQ+ people, and regardless of parliament or government ban, they would participate in the march. However, he did not hang the LGBTQ flag on the city hall. As a result, Krisztina Baranyi, the mayor of Ferencváros, Budapest’s 9th district, called him the most cowardly mayor of Budapest of all time.
The new Hungarian Pride law bans such events, theoretically, to protect children from seeing LGBTQ+ people at an open event in the heart of the city. The Orbán cabinet believes such scenes would be harmful to the kids’ development.
PM Orbán revealed some details about the execution of the new law
Asked whether he would ban the Pride March in Hungary, he said ahead of a meeting of the Patriots for Europe party group in Brussels: “We are not there yet… We changed the constitution [to say] that the basic rights of the kids, to have the proper growing up and education is which is well ahead of all the other basic rights of the citizens of Hungary. That’s what we have done, which could be the basis to ban anything that could be against the interests of the children. What we are doing is to protect our children,” Orbán said.
Organisers of the Pride March will have to turn to the authorities and await their decision, he said. He also emphasised that no one would be arrested at such an event. However, they would be fined, he said. “If you break the law, you have to pay.”
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