Young people and families
Many high school students and students, but also people of all ages, with friends or family, have braved the ban on the authorities, in an atmosphere that is both sober and festive. These people paraded under the eye of facial recognition cameras, temporarily arranged along the route by power, in order to inflict them a posteriori Fines for offense.
Going down the street for the 30th march of Budapests’ pride was not sure, because for the first time the participants had reasons for being afraid, not to be protected by the police who had not authorized the event, and far -right groups who promised to enforce the Prime Minister’s will. Supervised by the police, they will ultimately be only a few dozen big arms to look at, helpless, the endless festive procession.
The pride of Budapest will take place on Saturday, no offense to Viktor Orban
It was not self -evident A stronger For a provincial teacher who lives with another woman and who could suffer the consequences for her work, if that was known. Like many, Lili participated for the first time in the Pride de Budapest. “”It’s a huge cliché to say it, but you have to choose love rather than hatred. Society becomes more tolerant and more open to many points, especially the young generations. But the government constantly infuses fear, censorship and hatred. And the most heartbreaking is that they hide behind the children, that they say they are protecting queer people, “she said.
However, the government had given itself the means to prevent the departure of this demonstration – an unprecedented fact in a country of the European Union. The law of 2021 which banished the “homosexual propaganda “ With minors, inspired by Putin Russia, was extended in the spring by law prohibiting pro-LGBT rallies. The Constitution was then amended to prevail “child protection” on all other rights, in this case of meeting and demonstration. Which will inevitably be worth Hungary a new procedure for an offense by the European Court of Justice and new setbacks with the EU
It was by braving the downstream of the police that the mayor of the capital, Gergely Karácsony, took responsibility for the event. A mayor triumph on Saturday, and who at the end of the course launched to the crowd: “You really don’t look like banished people! “.
The president of Défi, Sophie Rohonyi went to the pride of Budapest, “to launch an alarm cry”
A European moment
The European lefts had made the trip to Budapest to give an international impact to this day and have a prestige victory against Orbán, on his own land.
About seventy euros have also paraded, exasperated by the lukewarm of the European Commission to sanction the Hungarian government and to freeze all European funds. The president of the European executive Ursula von der Leyen was satisfied with a simple support tweet, while the Belgian equality commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, came to symbolically support the organizers. Several Spanish and Dutch ministers, or the former Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, have grown the ranks of the demonstration which was supported by more than thirty embassies, including that of Belgium, with the notable exception of the United States and Italy.
The curator Péter Magyar, first opponent of Viktor Orbán and the man to be killed for the power was held away, leaving the representatives of the liberal left, majority in Budapest, leading the Fronde. And this in order to avoid lending the flank to the criticisms of the government who would not have failed to target it in order to satisfy its conservative electorate.
Peter Magyar nevertheless provided indirect support to the demonstration and even rejoiced for his success: “Orbán scored a huge goal against his camp trying to ban the event today. […] He exhaust himself to encourage hatred, threaten and harass. Hungarians are intimidated and stigmatized, it is unforgivable. Orbán wanted to harm others, but it was to himself and his accomplices that he has done the most harm“.
