Budapest – Great Britain, France and Germany and 30 other countries expressed their support on Monday to the LGBTQ community in Hungary and a Budapest Pride march on June 28, which was prohibited by the police after the government denounced it potentially harmful to children.
However, the United States, whose President Donald Trump shares the suspicion of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of efforts to promote the diversity and the rights of the transgender, was not a signatory of a declaration of the embassies of the countries which support the march.
Parliament, in which the Fidesz d’Orban party has a majority, adopted a law in March which created a legal basis for the police to prohibit the marches of the LGBTQ community on the grounds that the protection of children should replace the right to meet.
Critics see the decision to prohibit pride in a broader repression of democratic freedoms before a general election next year, when Orban will face a strong opposition challenger, considered by certain recent and front surveys.
The Government of Orban promotes a strongly Christian-conservative program, and Fidesz tried to respond to the main conservative voters mainly in the countryside before the elections.
The adoption of the new law allowed the police to ban the pride in March 30 last week, but the Liberal mayor of Budapest and the event organizers said that the march will take place despite the police ban on June 28.
“In the 30th occasion of the Budapest Pride Festival, we, the undersigned cultural embassies and institutes, reaffirm our support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ +) in Hungary and in the world,” said the declaration of the embassances.
The press release indicates that the march of the pride of Budapest “was a symbol of resilience and progress, reflecting the vital role of LGBTIQ + people in the subsequent development of democracy.”
Orban, in power since 2010, in the country of Central European EU, is described as the defense of family values and declared in February that the organizers should not even take the trouble to organize the pride of Budapest this year.
