Thousands of Hungarians protested Budapest on Tuesday (the first) against a law aimed at banning the annual LGBTQ+PRIDE march. Critics accuse the government of suppressing democratic freedoms before the 2026 parliamentary elections.
Prime Minister Victor Urban, who faces a strong challenge to the growing opposition party before voting, criticized the LGBTQ+ community and promised to restrict foreign financing from independent and non -governmental media in Hungary.
Control Partido Fidesz but OrbanParliament approved the law last month Progress marchPointing to be harmful to children.
The law declares the police using facial recognition cameras to identify people who participate in this event and impose fines, which, according to critics, can become a tool to reach ORBán political opponents.
Urban said that the fact that actions like Tuesday can be implemented means that there is no threat to democracy, and called on opposition protests against the new law “provocation”.
However, some demonstrators who participated in the protest, Third about the reforms From Urban, they expressed their concerns about Hungarian democracy.
A group of embassies in Budapest, including European countries, but not the United States, has also expressed concern about changes.
22 embassies, including those in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, said: “We, the signed embassies, are very concerned about legislation … which results in restrictions on the right of peaceful meeting and freedom of expression,” including those in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
The festival organizers say that the path of pride is not a threat to children and plan to hold the event despite the ban.
