The Parliament of the Hungarians approved on Monday an amendment to the Constitution that allows the Government to prohibit the public events of the LGBTQ+communities, a decision that legal and critics academics call towards authoritarianism by the populist government.
The amendment, which required a two -third vote, approved the line lines with 140 votes and 21 against.
He was proposed by the Fidesz-KDNP ruling coalition led by populist prime minister Viktor Orbán.
Before the vote, the final step for the amendment, the opposition politicians and other protesters tried to block the entrance to a parking lot of the Parliament.
Police physically withdrew the protesters, who had used lying to join.
The amendment declares that the rights of children to moral, physical and spiritual development replaced another right other than the right to life, including the Pacific Assembly.
The legislation of “child protection” of the Hungarians prohibits the “representation or promotion” or homosexuality to children under 18.
The amendment encodes an accelerated law to Parliament in March that prohibits public events held by the LGBTQ+communities, including the popular pride event in Budapest that attracts thousands annually.
This law also allows the authorities to use facial recognition tools to identify people who attend prohibited events, such as Budapest’s pride, and can come with fines of up to 200,000 Hungarian Forints ($ 546).
Dávid Bederc, a legislator of the opposition party at the time of the blockade attempt, said before the vote that Orbán and Fidesz during the last 15 years “have been dismantling democracy and the rule of law, and in the last two they have been Honns,”
He said as the elections approach in 2026 and the Orbán party is left behind in the surveys, he is a new popular opposition challenger: “They will do everything in their power to stay in power.”
Opposition legislators used aerial horns to interrupt the vote, which continued after a few moments.
The Hungarian government has campaigned against LGBTQ+ communities in recent years and argues its “child protection” policies, which prohibits availability to minors of any material that mentions gay exity, the ide Ide Ide Ide Ide far away from the drift of madness. “
Critics say that the measures do little to protect children and are being used to distract themselves from more serious problems that the country faces and to mobilize Orbán’s right -wing base before the elections.
“All this effort we see launched by the Government, has nothing to do with the rights of children,” said Dánel Döbrentey, a lawyer for the Union of Civil Liberties of Hungarians, describing it as “pure propaganda.”
The Constitution recognizes two sexes
The new amendment also establishes that the Constitution recognizes two sexes, men and women, an expansion of an anterior amendment that prohibits the adoption of same sex by affirming that a mother is a woman and a father is a man.
The declaration provides a constitutional basic to deny the gender identities of transgender people, as well as ignoring the existence of intersex individuals that are born with sexual characteristics that are not aligned with the binary conceptions of men and women.
In a statement on Monday, the government spokesman, Zoltán Kovács, wrote that the change “is not an attack on individual self -expression, but a clarification that legal norms are based on biological reality.”
Döbrentey, the lawyer, said it was “a clear message” for transgender and intersexual people: “It is definitely about humiliating people and excluding them, not only from the national community, but even of the community of human beings.”
The amendment is the 15 of the Hungarian Constitution since the Orbán party wrote it and approved it unilaterally in 2011.
Facial recognition to identify protesters
Adá Remport, a HCLU lawyer, said that while Hary has used facial recognition tools since 2015 to help the police in criminal investigations and find missing persons, the recent law that prohibits the Alematicia of the pride that will be used.
That includes monitoring and deter political protests.
“One of the most fundamental problems is its invasiveness, only the scale of the intrusion that occurs when mass surveillance applies to a crowd,” Remport said.
“More prominent in this case is the effect on the freedom of assembly, specifically the chilling effect that arises when people are afraid to leave and show their political or ideological beliefs for fear of being persecuted,” he added.
Suspension of citizenship
The amendment approved on Monday also allows Hungarians to have double citizenship in a non -European economic country that suspends their citizenship for up to 10 years if they consider that they represent a threat to public security, public security.
Hunhary has taken measures in recent months to protect his national sovereignty of what states that they are foreign efforts to influence their policy or also overthrow the Orbán government.
The self -denominated leader “iliberal” has accelerated his pulmonary efforts to take energetic measures against critics such media and groups dedicated to civil rights and anti -corruption, which SYS has finally donated Donate.
In a speech load with conspiracy theories in March, Orbán compared the people who work for such groups with insects and pledged to “eliminate the entire Army of Shadows” or politicians, judges, journalists, journalists, pseudo-ingo and policies funded on the foreigner “or politics” “.