Budapest Pride: From the Leyen insisted on implementation regardless of the ban | EUROtoday

Budapest Pride: From the Leyen insisted on implementation regardless of the ban
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From the Leyen insisted on the implementation of the Budapest Pride

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Participants of the Budapest Pride threaten punishments after they take to the streets. The EU Commission President made it clear {that a} ban was incompatible with the essential values ​​of the Union.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen requested the Hungarian authorities to carry the ban on Budapest Pride. “Our Union stands for equality and non -discrimination. These are our basic values ​​that are anchored in our contracts,” she mentioned. “I ask the Hungarian authorities to have Budapest Pride Pride without fear of criminal or administrative sanctions against the organizers or participants.”

The ban on the Budapest Pride depends, amongst different issues, on a constitutional change that prescribe the ban on conferences by which non-heterosexual existence are made seen below the pretext of kid safety.

Hungary’s authorities warned EU representatives to take part within the occasion. The authorized scenario was “clear,” mentioned Hungarian Minister of Justice Bence Tuzson within the letter to the ambassador of a number of EU international locations, which the information company AFP was obtainable on Wednesday. “The Pride is a legally prohibited assembly”. Anyone who takes half in it commits against the law.

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The minister requested the diplomatic representations to make sure that “their employees and colleagues are properly informed about this fact in the interest of clarity”. He recalled that the individuals need to anticipate fines of as much as 500 euros. According to him, even a one -year jail sentence threatens for the group or name to take part.

Budapest Pride has been going down for 30 years

The Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacony desires to have the transfer with hundreds of anticipated guests carried out on June 28, regardless of the ban on the police. In Pride parades, folks show for the rights of lesbian, gays, bisexuals, trans- and queer folks (LGBTQ).

In Hungary, the suitable -wing populist Viktor Orban has been ruling with more and more autocratic strategies since 2010. His authorities and nearly all of authorities in parliament discriminate gay, transsexual and different sexual minorities. The Pride has been going down in Budapest for 30 years.

DPA · AFP

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