A human tide paraded in Budapest for the Pride Declared outlaw and prohibited by Viktor Orban. “We believe that there are between 180 thousand and 200 thousand people, it is difficult to make an exact estimate because There have never been so many people“, What the president of Pride, Viktoria Radvany, declared to the FP, underlining the extraordinary participation in the event.
“This event represented one of the most important stages for the LGBT community,” said one of the pride organizers, Máté Hegedüs, commenting on the Record participation in the procession that crossed the center of the Hungarian capital this afternoon.
Ponte della Libertà blocked by right -wing extremists
According to the Telex.hu website, it was an imposing event, and when the head of the procession reached the stage mounted at the University of Technology, the tail had yet to cross the Elizabeth bridge, where the path of the march was diverted, because The Ponte della Libertà was blocked by the right extremists of Mi Hazankwho organized a cons procession. This, unlike Pride, was authorized by the police.
In addition to the dozens of MEP and political exponents of all Europe, the procession of Pride, the mayor Gergely Karácsony who, in the face of the ban on the government and the police, made the event by declaring it by declaring it a municipal event. The Minister of Justice, Bence Tuzson, threatened a criminal action against the mayor and contacted several embassies in Budapest to communicate that today’s march is considered outlawed by the government.
The irony of the mayor of Budapest
“Thank you, Viktor Orban, for having advertised a more tolerant society,” ironized the mayor Karácsons about the fact that the anti-gay laws and the prohibitions of the nationalist government have caused the record mobilization of 200 thousand participants for reaction.
“For today you have made Budapest the capital of Europe,” said Karácsons in the speech pronounced at the end of Pride. According to the environmental liberal mayor, a clear message arrives from today’s Pride. “They do not have the power over us,” he said, underlining, according to what the Telex.hu site reports, that all oppressive powers have in common the fact that one day they end. The mayor concluded his speech by thanking the police for the work done.
A delegation of Italian arcigays and politicians are also a pride of Budapest. “We are here at Pride Budapest to defend freedom and democracy – he writes on social media Elly Schleinsecretary of the Democratic Party – We are here to express full solidarity with the Hungarian people and the LGBTQia+community. We are here to say that in our European Union, when affecting someone’s rights, the rights of all of us are hit “.
“We are here to say that love by law cannot be prohibited. Our difference by law cannot be canceled. The gender identity cannot be canceled – he adds -. Our bodies cannot be canceled because they exist. “” And today we will make them so strong together, that the haters will not pass. No Pasaran! “, Schlein concludes in the post.
“A colorful, peaceful and determined river invaded the streets of Budapest today, challenging the shameful ban imposed by Viktor Orbán – he underlines in a note The delegation of the M5S present in Budapest For Pride, Alessandra Maiorino, Gabriella Di Girolamo, Elisa Pirro and Marco Croatti – a ban that does not affect only the right to demonstrate, but denies the right to the existence of LGBT+people. The response of healthy Europe, the one that does not retreat before the intolerance, has arrived strong and clear: no step back on the rights, no complicit silence in the face of repression “.
“If the European institutions have lost the courage to defend freedom and think of transforming citizens’ dreams into a nightmare made of rearmament, control and walls, citizens will raise the flag of dignity and equality. The Europe we want is the cradle of rights, not a militarized fortress”, conclude the pentastellated parliamentarians.
Write on x Angelo BonelliParliamentary AVS and Co-Portavoce of Europe Verde: “In Budapest thousands of people parade for the rights, challenging the prohibition of Viktor Orban. Pride is a battle of freedom against authoritarianism. We are alongside those who fight for equality, against any discrimination. Love is not forbidden. #budapestpride #LGBTQIA+ #ditizi”.
“Today in the square in Budapest with over 70 parliamentarians from all over Europe, representatives of popular, liberal and social democratic parties to say yes to the Europe of rights and not to the Europe of Orban, to its privileged relationships with Putin and its violations of the rule of law”, the post on social networks of the action leader, Carlo Calenda.
At the same time with Budapest, he also processions in Italy that on the day in which the anniversary of the Motes of Stonewall is celebrated cross the cities for the Pride wave.
