Orbán reforms the Constitution to ban the LGBTI Pride march with a text that puts men before women.
Fidesz, the ultraconservative party Viktor Orbán —along with its coalition partner KDNP—, introduced the Parliament This Tuesday afternoon the 15th constitutional reform since regaining power in 2010. He proposes constitutional changes that could mean banning an annual community celebration march LGBTQ + and the expulsion of citizens with dual nationality if they are considered to pose a threat to the country's sovereignty.
Viktor Orban has repeatedly criticized people LGBTQ + and has promised to take action against foreign funding of independent media and non-governmental organizations in Hungary in recent weeks, after his ally, the president of United States, Donald Trump, paused the funding of the United States Agency for International Development.
With the success of the process guaranteed by its parliamentary supermajority, the Hungarian Basic Law will serve to ban the LGBT Pride march. It will also consecrate that there is only two genders, masculine and feminine, and will correct the text to placing men before womenOther amendments will change how the executive branch can rule by decree and open the door to deporting dual citizens on grounds of national security.
In the document in which he argues for the changes, Fidesz takes a stand against the “Trends observed in the Western world that include a reinterpretation of traditional institutions, such as the family and national identity”. He also argues that the country is based on Christian culture.
Prevent Pride from being celebrated
The Constitution does not mention people LGTBI, but when he talks about children's rights and “the protection of their physical, mental and moral development", no one doubts Hungary that the Government wants to limit the rights of the collective again LGTBI, as if they were a threat. It is the same principle of the law branded as homophobic by the UE which has cost him, among other reasons, the freezing of billions of euros in European funds - between 21.000 and 22.000 billion remain suspended. And when he claims that this guarantee of care "prevails over all other fundamental rights, with the exception of the right to life", everyone knows that it refers to the right of assembly, on which the LGBT Pride march.
Orbán He had already warned about this in a speech on February 22: “I advise Pride organizers not to bother planning this year's parade. It would be a waste of time and money."His Chief of Staff, Gergely Gulyas, clarified a few days later to the media 24.hu that Fidesz was working on a constitutional reform to prevent Pride be celebrated in public, as it has been for decades, with a march down Budapest's Andrássy Avenue. In principle, Goulash I saw no problem with it taking place in a closed, private place.
Two genders
In a previous reform of the Fundamental Law, the national-populist government wrote that “The basis of family relationships is marriage and the parent-child relationship. The mother is a woman, the father is a man.”. The article, which thus protected traditional marriage against homosexual unions, is now expanded: “The basis of the relationship is marriage and the parent-child relationship. A person is a man or a woman. The father is a man, the mother is a woman.".
With the new wording, Orbán follows the wake of the crusade against trans people of his admired Donald Trump. As soon as he took office for his second term as president of United States, the Republican leader, with whom he maintains an excellent relationship, declared: “The official policy of the United States Government will be that there are only two genders, male and female.". "Let's write in the Constitution that a person is either a man or a woman. Period.", said the Hungarian prime minister in the same February speech. The text introducing the changes to prevent legal recognition of trans people argues that "The determination of biological sex guarantees the healthy development of society and the maintenance of fundamental community standards".
In the explanatory document, Fidesz emphasizes that “Sex at birth is a biological condition that can be male or female, according to the order of creation. The State is responsible for ensuring the legal protection of this natural order and preventing attempts to change sex at birth.".
