Budapest is advertised as a fun city. On Saturday, the fun spilled on the streets and occupied in the doll’s doll, Elizabeth Bridge and the coast of the river and the area in the center of the Danube.
Between 100,000 and 200,000, mostly young people danced and sang their way from the pests to the Buddha.
The distance that usually only takes 20 minutes on foot, extended for three hours.
Prime Minister Victor Orban Prohibition, many participants in Budapest, were told me, encouraged them to attend the event that they are usually held on. Only 35,000 participated last year.
Many banners mocked the Hungarian Prime Minister. It was like a peaceful revenge from some of those declared war during his last 15 years in power.
“In his class of history, I learned enough, to recognize the dictatorship. You don’t have to illustrate it – Vic!” Read one manual transparent. “I’m so bored with fascism,” Read another.
T-shirts with Orban’s paintings, in a strong shadow and rose, were everywhere.
While the LGBT community with its vivid supplies gave the core of march, this year’s pride has turned into a celebration of human rights and solidarity.
“We don’t look just like we were banned!” Beam Budapest Mayor, Gergeli Karacson, said the tire in speech in front of the University of Budapest.
Today’s March could be reduced as a crowned moment of her political career. The City Hall hunger funds and in constant struggle with the Central Government, he dared to enter the event that the government tried to ban and win – for now.
“In fact, we look like we are calm and feel free to perform a large, greasy emission on inflated and hate. The message is clear: they do not have power over us!” Karacsoni continued.
Among those present is Finnish MEP Li Andersson, which Orban believed that the arguments used family values as an excuse to ban march.
“It is important to emphasize that why we are here not only pride – it is about the basic rights of all of us,” she said.
Ban is based on the new law, which has been greater than the Orbanian hearty party in parliament, subordinated by the Protection of Children from 2021. year, which has been banned by gay or promotion of homosexuality in places where children could see.
Police justified the ban on Saturday on Saturday on the field so that children could be witnesses. In response, the mayor stated in the amount of 2001. stating events organized by the councils do not fall under the right of the Assembly.
Finally, police officers present on March guarded the discreet presence, complaints unfortunately at the party they were excluded.
In the second part of the city, Orban was attended by a graduation ceremony of 162 new police and customs and new officials of the Director General of the National Administration for Police Foreigners.
“The order does not come in itself, it must be created, because without it, civilized life will be lost,” he told students and their families.
Earlier, he and other prominent officials set pictures of themselves with their children and grandchildren, trying to recover “pride” the word.
“Send a picture, to show you what we are proud of” Aleksandra Szentkirali, Chief of Songs in Budapest, published on Facebook, next to the image from himself in a fairly simple T-shirt “Hungary”.
The police presence was substruised in Budapest on Saturday, but temporary cameras were installed in March and mounted on police vehicles recorded the entire event.
The Law of 18. March who tried to ban pride made police new powers to use face recognition software. Penalties between 14 ($ 19) and £ 430 can be imposed on participants.
Prassine media understood in critique of today’s event, deviating the notes of leading police officers that March celebrates perversity, without any connection with the freedom of the Assembly.
“Haos at Pride Budapest”, she declared Hungarian nation, government leader.
“The infamous climatic activist and recent terrorist fan Greta Thunberg announced on her Instagram page that she was also on Budapest,” she continued.
“After the demonstration, it will be a question for the courts,” said BBC Zoltan Kiszelli, a political analyst near the government.
“If the courts decide in favor of mayor and (pride) of the organizer, then I can say, ok, okay, we need to change legislation again.”
If the courts decide on the government, however, the Prime Minister may be satisfied with the law who passed through – despite the fact of pride.
