On Monday, the Hungarian Parliament transferred an amendment to the constitution, which allows the government to prohibit public events by 2SLGBTQ+communities, a decision that lawyers and critics call the next step towards authoritarianism by the populist government.
The amendment, which required two -thirds of the votes, passed the party's poems with 140 votes and 21 against.
It was proposed by the ruling coalition Fidesz-KDNP, headed by the populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Before voting – the last step to the correction – opposition politicians and other protesters tried to block the entrance to the parliament parliament.
The police physically removed demonstrators who used zippers to get together.
The amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical and spiritual development replace all law than the right to life, including to a peaceful gathering.
The disputed legislation of Hungary “Children's Protection” prohibits the “presentation or promotion” of homosexuality to minors under 18 years of age.
The amendment codifies the fast law by parliament in March that it prohibits public events organized by the 2SLGBTQ+community, including the popular Pride event in Budapest, which attracts thousands of a year.
This Act also allows the authorities to use the tools for recognizing the face to identify people who attend prohibited events – such as Pride Budapest – and may have a fine of up to 200,000 Hungarian Forints (769 USD CDN).
Dávid Bedő, a legislator with an opposition party who participated in a lock attempt, said before voting that Orbán and Fidesz for the last 15 years “break democracy and the rule of law, and in the last two or three months we can see that this process has been accelerated.”
He said that when the election is approaching in 2026, and the Orbán party is delayed in the polls behind the popular new contender from the opposition: “They will do everything in their power to remain in power.”
The opposition legislators used air corners to disturb the voice, which lasted after a few moments. The Hungarian government conducted a campaign against 2SLGBTQ+ communities in recent years and argues its policy of “child protection” – which prohibit the availability of minors, which she mentions homosexuality – they are needed to protect children from what “Woke Ideology” and “Madness” calls.
Critics say that the funds do not do much to protect children and are used to divert attention from more serious problems from the country and mobilize the right -wing Orbán base before the election.
“The whole undertaking that we see by the government has nothing to do with the rights of children,” said Dánel Döbrentey, a lawyer from the Hungarian Association of Civic Freedom, calling this “pure propaganda.”
The amendment also removes trans, intersial identities
The new amendment also states that the Constitution recognizes two sexes, men and women-extending an earlier amendment that prohibits the adoption of the same sex people by saying that the mother is a woman and the father is a man.
The declaration is a constitutional basis for refusing the sexual identity of transgender persons, as well as ignoring the existence of intersial people who are born with sexual features that are not in line with the binary concepts of men and women.
In a statement on Monday, spokesman for government Zoltán Kovács wrote that change is not “an attack on individual expression, but an explanation that legal norms are based on biological reality.”
Döbrenstey, a lawyer, said that it was a “clear message” for transgender and intersial people: “It is definitely and clean and strictly about humiliating people and excluding them, not only from the national community, but even from the community of people.”
The amendment is the 15th constitution of Hungary, because the Orbána party is an author unilaterally and approved it in 2011.
Facial recognition to identify demonstrators
Ádám Remport, a lawyer from Hcl, said that while Hungary has been using facial recognition tools since 2015 to help the police in criminal investigations and finding missing people, recent law prohibiting pride allows the use of technology in a much broader and problematic way.
This includes monitoring and discouraging political protests.
“One of the most fundamental problems is its invasiveness, only the scale of the invasion that happens when you use mass surveillance in the crowd,” said Remport.
“In this case, it is more important to influence the freedom of the congregation, in particular the chilling chilling number of effects that arises when people are afraid to come out and show their political or ideological beliefs for fear of persecution,” he added.
Citizenship suspension
The amendment has passed on Monday, it also allows Hungarians who have double citizenship in the non -European country of the economic area for a suspension of citizenship for a period of up to 10 years, if they consider them a threat to public order, public security or national security.
In Hungary, they have taken steps in recent months to protect their national sovereignty from what he claims that there are foreign efforts to influence his policy, and even the insults of the Orbán government.
The self -proclaimed “non -liberal” leader accelerated his long -term efforts to part critics, such as media and groups devoted to civic and anti -corruption laws, which, he claims, undermined the sovereignty of Hungary, receiving financial assistance from international donors.
In a speech burdened with conspiracy theories in March, Orbán compared people who work for such groups for insects, and committed themselves to “eliminating the entire shadow army” financed by foreign “politicians, judges, journalists, pseudo-ngo and political activists.”