More than 300,000 people put a sign of diversity and tolerance in the Rainbow Parade in Vienna on Saturday. Such a parade was recently forbidden in Hungary – but an event is planned for the end of June. The EU parliament advises on Wednesday on the “Freedom of Meeting in Hungary”.
The capital of Hungary, Budapest, wants to avoid a ban on the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and organize a pride parade on 28 June as planned. “Everyone is welcome at the Budapester -proud,” said the mayor of the capital, Gergely Karácsony on Monday in a Facebook video. Because it is an “urban event”. According to the liberal politician, no official approval is required.
The Austrian EU parliament member Lena Schilling (Greens) is not only planning to participate in the parade on the side of other members, but also donates 7,000 euros for possible penalty payments in connection with the organization and participation in the event.
She has a lot of respect for anyone who has organized the Budapest proud despite the intimidation, explained the former top candidate of the Austrian Greens for the European Parliament. “They are not fighting for an event. They are fighting for their fundamental rights because they know that if they don’t fight now, they will be taken away from them little by little.”
General lawyer determines the distance of fundamental rights
Since 2021, homosexuality has prohibited a law in Hungary – which is intended to serve the protection of minors and protection against pedophilia. This was last tightened by the Hungarian Parliament with further measures against the LGBTQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer, note). This should also provide the legal basis for a ban on the Pride Parade, which is just as happy as political demonstration.
At the beginning of June, the general public prosecutor of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided Tamara Capeta and ordered Hungary to remove the fundamental values of the EU in this context and ordered the committee to complain in 2022. The lack of respect or exclusion of a social group are red lines that are exceeded.
“For years, the EU committee and the Member States have looked at (the Hungarian head of the government, note) Viktor Orbán Queer people, minorities and marginalized groups systematically suppress groups.” It is a pity that we let it go that far. “
Radványi: “We protect the fundamental rights”
“We are not only organizing an event. We not only defend a parade. We protect all people in Hungary: our human dignity, the human minimum. And nobody can take on the light,” said Viktória Radványi, spokeswoman for Budapest Pride. “We finally demand concrete legal steps. Hungarian citizens deserve the same fundamental rights as everyone else in the European Union. We no longer accept citizens of the second class – neither in our country nor in Europe.”
On Tuesday, the EU parliament intends to talk about “Freedom of Meeting in Hungary” and to discuss the needs of the committee in action. “What the committee does is not enough. I would like a clear punishment for Hungary and a clear position,” said Schilling. In the press conference, her colleague Thomas Waitz also referred to the legal state report, the status of which will be voted on Wednesday. “What Hungary does is long enough to withdraw the voting rights. In the meantime, it is no longer avoidable to establish consequences.”
Schilling donates 7000 euros for penalties
In addition to Lena Schilling, more than 20 MPs of the Greens/EFA party action and the Austrian green politician will accept the invitation, said it on Tuesday. When accepting its EU mandate, Schilling announced that the sixth gross monthly salary of civil society was donated. About 3000 euros always goes to the Green Citizens: The Inner Initiative Association, this time the remaining 7000 euros will benefit the organizers of the Budapest -pride and activists, in particular to pay procedural costs and administrative fines if necessary.
Source: Krone
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