Tens of thousands of Hungarians and international allies flooded Budapest Street on Saturday in a historical parade of defiance against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the pride celebrations.
Record crowds protest against Orban’s “protection of children” as weaving cameras
Waving rainbow flags and inscriptions proclaiming “freedom and love cannot be disabled”, crowds estimated to be more than 35,000 marched around the newly installed cameras for facial recognition, instruments that threatened to identify participants. Action 30. Anniversary, which began at the opposition Town Hall, has developed peacefully despite the commitment of heat and police warnings against the “legal consequences” for the participants.
“I am proud to be gay … And I’m very afraid that the government wants to overthrow us. I am very surprised that there are so many people, I want to cry,” the 66 -year -old quoted as AFP, who only gave his first name Zoltan.
In March, the Orbán government changed the Hungarian Institute to ban the events under “protection of children”, allowing fines of up to 500 euros for participants and annual prison for the organizers. The opposition mayor of Gergela Kaacsony was circumventing the ban by saying a march for the city event – the national police refused, but could not violently stop.
EU officials join the municipal defiance in the middle of warning against prison and fines
Dozens of EU legislators, including the Commissioner of Equality Hadja Lahbib, who condemned the Hungarian “discriminatory treatment” of LGBTQ+joined the procession.
“Orban employs a tested and tested recipe before the next year’s elections by generating conflict,” political analyst Daniel Mikecz quoted as AFP and said that Orban is a “polarizing society”.
The atmosphere remained ceremonially ceremonially ceremonious as a far -right groups that represented counterattacks; The police diverted the routes to avoid clashes. For an eighteen -year -old student Horváth, he had the participation of “symbolic meaning”: “It is a position for the rights of all Hungarians”.
Massive participation of signals increases resistance to orban -ten -year erosion LGBTQ+rights, the campaign analysts say it aims to collect conservative voters before the 2026 elections.
Although Orban required inspiration from “anti-university pressure” Donald Trump, the event brought unprecedented global support: 33 nations and EU chairman Ursula von der Leyen condemned this ban. For the 66 -year -old Zoltan, the first marching, solidarity was stunning: “I want to cry that so many people”.
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