A Budapest Pride is expected to move forward on Saturday on March, which defines the legal threats against Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban’s LGBTQ rights activists.
Despite the increasing pressure from nationalist conservative politicians and police to prevent any performance of pro-LGBTQ material, March organizers are expected to have a record appearance.
Police issued a ban on a new “child protection” law to promote homosexuality. A woman said that she was planning to participate because she wants a country of “diversity” for her children.
Orban reduced the possibility of violent clashes between police and participants, but warned of potential legal consequences for the attendees.
“Of course, the police can break such events, as they have the right to do so, but Hungary is a civilized country, a civil society. We do not hurt each other,” they told State Radio on Friday.
“There will be legal consequences, but it cannot reach the level of physical abuse.”
The attendees imposed a fine up to € 500 (£ 427; $ 586), the police empowered them to use facial identification techniques to identify them.
The organizers may face a one -year prison sentence.
34 -year -old Luka, who plans to participate with his mother Enico, said he wants a country of “diversity” that he said that he does not have the present.
“We have a law that banns people who are different from others. To gather. That’s why we are here. Because it is harming our rights. So we have come.”
She told the BBC that she is worried about her four -year -old daughter’s future life “in a country where she cannot love anyone she wants”.
Barnabus said that he was participating “to express my solidarity with the LGBTQ community … because I know what it seems like not being seen and behaved like an outpast, which is clearly not everyone here”.
Not a part of the community itself, the 22 -year -old said that he comes from rural areas, where people are “more likely to be zenophobic and homophobic”.
Former Belgian Foreign Minister, the European Union’s Commissioner, is in the Lahbib Budapest and is expected to join the march with dozens of MEPs.
On Friday, he posted a picture in which he was shown standing in front of a rainbow flag symbol of gay rights with Gargali Karkasony, Mayor of Liberal Budapest.
The Pride March “would be a powerful symbol of the power of the Civil Society”, he wrote on X.
A member of the Hungary opposition, Karaksoni, has stressed that no one can face a person to participate in March because it is co-agenned by the City Hall, and as is a municipal event that does not require police approval.
Proudly, European Commission Chairman Ursula von Der Leyen asked the Orban government not to block the March.
Orban was surprised, asked him to “avoid interference in law enforcement matters” from European Union member countries.