Hungary brought a constitutional amendment that enables the authorities to ban LGBT + public events such as the pride of marches – a move as another step towards the authoritarian of the country’s country.
Opposition politicians and other protesters have tried to block entrances to parliament ahead of voice on Monday. Inside, air horns were used in an attempt to disrupt the vote.
The amendment codifies the law quickly followed by parliament in March, which prohibit public events held by LGBT + Communities, including a popular pride event in Budapest that extracts annually. He declares that children’s rights to moral and spiritual development replace any other right, including to gather peacefully.
Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in power since 2010, faces the elections in 2026. years with the economy that struggles and the new opposition party set the strongest challenge for his rule. Constitutional amendments are part of political campaigns g. Orbane to step up their basic voter base, and also lure voices from the ultimate law, some analysts said.
Mr. Orban undertook to crack in foreign financing of independent media and non-governmental organizations in Hungary, with scaling its political campaign against LGBT + communities.
This law enables the authorities to use the facial recognition tools to identify people attending prohibited events – such as Budapest Pride – and can reach fines up to 200,000 Hungarian forints (£ 450).
David Bedo, legislators with a stranger for the opposition swing that participated in the attempted blockade, said Mr. Orban and Fidesz in the last 15 years “The laws of the law, and in the last two or three months we see that the process has accelerated.”
He said that he was an elective approach next year and the party. Orban lags behind the polls behind the popular new challenger from the opposition, “it will make everything in their power to stay in power.”
In recent years, the Hungarian government moved to the LGBT + community and claims that “child protection” for the juveniles who mention homosexuality, to protect children from what is called “gender madness” and “gender madness”.
“This entire effort he sees, that has nothing to do with children’s rights,” Daniel Dobrentey, a lawyer with the Hungarian union of civil liberty, calling him “pure propaganda”.
The new amendment also states that the Constitution recognizes two sexes, male and female, the spread of an earlier amendment that prohibits the same-own adoption by stating that the mother is a woman and his father is a man.
The statement provides a constitutional basis for denial of transgender people, as well as neglect of the existence of intersex individuals born with sexual characteristics that do not harmonize with binary conceptions of male and female.
In the Monday Statement, the Vlade spokesman said that the change “is not an attack on individual self-expression, but a clarification that legal norms are based on biological reality.”
Mr. Dobrentey said “a clear message” for transgender people and “purely and strictly and strictly due to humiliating people and excluding them, not only from the national community, but also from the community of human beings.”
The amendment is 15. to the Hungarian Constitution since Mr. Orban’s party was the author and approved 2011. Years.
Adam Remport, a lawyer with HCLU, while Hungary used to help the police in criminal investigations and finding the missing law enables the technology to be used in a much broader and problematic way. This includes monitoring and deterring political protests.
“One of the most basic problems is its invasiveness, just a pure scale of intrusion that happens when you apply mass surveillance in the crowd,” ReMport said.
“The bent in this case is the effect of the Freedom of the Assembly, a particularly cool effect that occurs when people are afraid to come out and show their political or ideological beliefs for fear,” he added.
The amendment passed on Monday, also allows Hungarians who hold dual citizenship in non-European countries to economic areas to have their citizenship for up to 10 if they are considered to be a threat to public order, public safety or national security.
In recent months, Hungary has taken steps to protect their national sovereignty from what claims that foreign efforts are to influence its policy or even collapsed authority to the Government.
Reuters and Associated Press contributed to this report