Hungary's government plans to move Pride off the streets

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Hungary's clampdown on Pride march sparks backlash
https://www.euronews.com/2025/02/28/hungarys-clampdown-on-pride-march-met-with-defiance

The Orbán administration has said that the country 'should not tolerate' the public event this year.

NGOs and human rights activists in Hungary have condemned the government's proposed clampdown on this year's Pride march in Budapest.

In a speech last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hinted that his administration would crack down on the event, saying it would be "a waste of time and money" for its organisers to make their usual preparations.

Then on Thursday, Gergely Gullyás, the Hungarian minister who runs Orbán's office, spoke more explicitly.

“There will be no Pride in the public form in which we have known it in recent decades," he said at a press conference. "We believe that the country should not tolerate Pride marching through the city centre."

Gullyás claimed the move was being made to "protect children".

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