Thousands of Party in Budapest Pride in a clear message to Orban

Budapest advertised as a party party. On Saturday, the party poured into the streets and occupied in the burning heat of summer, the Elizabeth Bridge and the river shores and in the city center on the two shores of the Danube.

Between 100,000 and 200,000 mostly young people danced and sang a road from a pest to Buddha.

A distance that usually only takes 20 minutes per foot to three hours.

The ban on Prime Minister Viktor Orban, many participants in Budapest Pride, told me, challenging them to attend an event from which they usually stay away. Last year, only 35,000 took part.

Many banners made fun of the Hungarian Prime Minister. It was like a peaceful revenge from some of those to whom he had declared war in his last 15 years in power.

“In my history class, I learned enough to recognize a dictatorship. You don’t have to illustrate it – Vic!” Read a handmade banner. “I’m so bored of fascism,” read another.

T -shirts depicting Orban, in bright shadows and lipstick, were everywhere.

While the LGBT community, with its bright paraffinal, the nucleus of the march, this year’s pride has become a holiday of human rights and solidarity.

“We don’t look exactly as if we were forbidden!” The radiant mayor of Budapest Gergeli Karachsoni told the crowd in a speech to the Technical University of Budapest.

Today’s hike can decline as the crowning moment of his political career. The mayoralty is starving with funds and in a constant fight against the central government has dared to host an event that the government has tried to ban and win – at least for now.

“We actually look like we are calm and freely perform a big, thick show of bulging and hateful force. The message is clear: they have no power over us!” Karacsony continued.

Among those present was Finnish MEP Li Anderson, who believes that Orban uses arguments for family values ​​as a pretext to ban the hike.

“It is important to emphasize that the reason we are here is not only pride – this is for the fundamental rights of all of us,” she said.

The prohibition is based on a new law passed by the great majority owned by the Orban Fides Party in Parliament, subordinating the freedom of the Child Protection Act in 2021, which is integrated with the homosexuality with the pedophilia and therefore prohibit the depiction or promotion of the children.

Police justify a ban on the Saturday campaign of the motive that children can witness. In response, the mayor cites a 2001 law, stating that the events organized by the Councils do not fall into the right to a meeting.

In the end, police officers on the hike maintained a discreet presence, looking at a sorrowful party, which were excluded.

In another part of the city, Orban attended the graduation ceremony of 162 new police and customs officers and new officers of the National Directorate -General for Police Aliens.

“The Order does not arise in itself, it must be created because without his civilized life will be lost,” Orban told students and their families.

Earlier, he and other prominent Fidesz employees posted pictures of themselves with their children and grandchildren in an attempt to restore the word “pride.”

“Post a photo to show them what we are proud of,” Alexandra Shentikirali, the head of the Fidesz faction on the Budapest Council, posted on Facebook, along with a photo of yourself in a rather ordinary Hungary T -shirt.

The police presence was restrained in Budapest on Saturday, but temporary cameras were installed before the hike and installed on police vehicles recorded the entire event.

The law of March 18, which tried to ban pride, gave the police new powers to use software to recognize persons. Participants may be fined between £ 14 ($ 19) and £ 430.

The pro -government media was scarce in their criticism of the events of the day, sounding remarks from Fidesz leading politicians that the march was a holiday of perverse, with nothing to do with the freedom of the meeting.

“Chaos in Budapest Pride,” the Hungarian nation, the government flagship, announced.

“The notorious climate activist, and more recently, the supporter of the terrorist Greta Tunberg posted on her Instagram page that she is also in Budapest Pride,” this continued.

“After the demonstration, this will be a question for the courts,” Zoltan Kiszelly, a political analyst close to the government, told the BBC.

“If the courts decide in favor of the mayor and organizers (pride), then Orban can say: Okay, we must change the legislation again.”

However, if the courts decide for the government, the Prime Minister may be pleased with the law he has passed – despite the fact that the pride moves forward.