The EU Equality Commissioner, Hadja Lahbib, has criticized on social networks the law approved on Tuesday in the Budapest Parliament that It prohibits the annual LGTBI pride march in Hungary, defending that Any “peaceful meeting” is a “fundamental right” within the framework of the European Union.
“We support the LGBTQI community, both in Hungary and in all member states,” wrote Hadja Lahbib In social networks. “The right to meet peacefully is a fundamental right that must defend itself throughout the European Union. “
The executive vice president of the European Commission, the Spanish Teresa Ribera also said Wednesday his opposition to which Hungary prohibits the celebrations of LGTBI Pride Day. “Our union is a union of freedom and equality” in which “all people should be able to be, live and love freely,” said the community responsible for competition.
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The Hungarian Parliament on Tuesday approved an amendment to the meeting law that prohibits in practice the celebration of the LGTBI Pride Parade with the argument of protecting minors. This caused strong opposition criticism and a protest with colored smoke pumps in Parliament. As well as a citizen concentration at the doors of Parliament, in Budapest.
The rule has been proposed by the Fidesz party, from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and also received the support of the deputies of the extreme right. The text of the amendment, approved with 136 votes in favor and 27 against (36 deputies did not vote), notes that “meetings that promote or exhibit the change in birth sex or homosexuality are prohibited.”
The Central European country, governed since 2010 by nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbánhas approved a series of laws hardly criticized by national and EU activists for limiting the rights of sexual and gender minorities.
The European Commission, 16 Member States and the European Parliament already They have taken Budapest to the courts by a 2021 law which prohibits the “promotion” of homosexuality among minors, around which the attempt to prohibit the progress of pride is based.
According to the Hungarian norm, attending a forbidden event will lead to fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian Florines ($ 546), which the State must send to “child protection”, according to the text of the law. The authorities may use facial recognition tools to identify the people who attend a forbidden event.
The organizers of the event, which every year celebrates the history of the LGTBQ+movement, and is dated June 28, have denounced that their prohibition “It’s not child protection, it’s fascism”
In Spain, organizations such as FELGTBI or the Triangle Foundation have condemned the prohibition of Hungarian Government Pride, while asking the European Commission through social networks, “That acts to guarantee the rule of law in countries that attack the democratic principles of the EU. “
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