The Hungary Parliament passed a change in the constitution on Monday, which enables the government to prohibit public events through 2SLGBTQ+ communities, a decision that describes legal scientists and critics a further step towards authoritarianism by the populist government.
The change, for which a coordinated coordination was required, was necessary with 140 votes for and 21 against.
It was proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition, which was led by the populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Before the vote – the last step for the change – attempted opposition politicians and other demonstrators to block the entrance to a parliamentary house.
The police have physically removed demonstrators who tie up with zippers to tie together.
The change explains that the rights of the children to moral, physical and spiritual development replaces a different right than the right to life, including this in order to gather peacefully.
Hungary’s controversial legislation of “child protection” prohibits the “representation or promotion” of homosexuality to minors aged under the age of 18.
The change codifies a law that is quickly pursued by Parliament in March and prohibits the public events of 2SLGBTQ+ communities, including the popular Pride event in Budapest, which attracts thousands every year.
This law also enables the authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who participate in prohibited events such as Budapest Pride and can be delivered with fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian forint (769 US dollars).
Dávid Bedő, a legislator of the opposition party who took part in the attempted blockade, said before the vote that Orbán and Fidesz had “dismantled democracy and the rule of law in the past 15 years, and in the past two or three months we see that this process has been excited.”
He said that the election in 2026 and Orbán’s party stayed behind a popular new challenger from the opposition in the surveys: “You will do everything in your power to stay in power.”
The legislators of the opposition used air horns to disturb the coordination that continued after a few moments. The government of Hungary has chosen against 2SLGBTQ+ communities in recent years and argues that their “child protection” guidelines -which prohibit the availability of minor materials -mentions homosexuality -to protect children from the so -called “Woke -ideology” and “gender madness”.
Critics say that the measures protect children and are used to distract more serious problems with the country and to mobilize the right basis of Orbán from the elections.
“This whole endeavor we have launched from the government has nothing to do with the rights of the children,” said Dánel Döbrentey, a lawyer of the Hungarian Union Civil Liberties and called it “pure propaganda”.
The change also deletes trans, intersexual identities
The new change also states that the constitution acknowledges two genders, male and female-one expansion of an earlier change that prohibits same-sex adoption by finding that a mother is a woman and a father is a man.
The explanation offers a constitutional basis for the rejection of the gender -specific identities of transgender people as well as the ignoring the existence of intersexual persons who were born with sexual characteristics who do not match binary ideas of men and women.
In a statement on Monday, the government spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, wrote that the change “is not an attack on the individual self -portrayal, but a clarification that legal norms are based on biological reality”.
Döbrentey, the lawyer, said it was “a clear message” for transgender and intersexuals: “It is definitely and purely and only about humiliating people and excluding them, not only from the national community, but also from the community of people.”
The change is the 15th to the Hungary constitution since Orbán’s party was written and approved one -sided in 2011.
Face recognition to identify demonstrators
Ádám Remport, a lawyer at the HCLU, said that Hungary has used facial venue instruments since 2015 to support the police in criminal investigations and find missing persons, but the recent law on the prohibition of pride allows the technology to be used much wider and problematic.
This includes monitoring and deterrent political protests.
“One of the most fundamental problems is his invasiveness, only the sheer selection of the penetration that occurs when you apply mass surveillance to a lot,” said Remport.
“In this case, the effects on the freedom of the assembly, in particular the terrifying effect that arise when people are afraid of going out of persecution and showing their political or ideological beliefs,” he added.
Suspension of citizenship
The change adopted on Monday enables Hungary, which have a double citizenship in a non -European economic country to suspend their citizenship for up to 10 years if they represent a threat to public order, public security or national security.
Hungary has taken steps in recent months to protect his national sovereignty from what she claims to influence foreign efforts, to influence his policy or even to overthrow the Orbán government.
The “illiberal” leader described by himself has accelerated his many years of efforts to be devoted to critics such as media transactions and groups of civil rights and anti-corruption.
In a speech that was loaded with conspiracy theories in March, Orbán compared people who work for such groups with insects and promised to eliminate the entire shadow army of foreign financed “politicians, judges, journalists, pseudo-NGOs and political activists”.
