{"id":14825,"date":"2025-06-19T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/hungarian-police-ban-budapest-pride-march\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:01:17","slug":"hungarian-police-ban-budapest-pride-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/hungarian-police-ban-budapest-pride-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian police ban Budapest Pride march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Hungarian police said on Thursday in a statement that they were banning the Budapest Pride march of the LGBTQ+ community planned for June 28.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Hungary\u2019s parliament, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s right-wing Fidesz Party has a big majority, passed legislation in March that created a legal basis for police to ban LGBTQ marches, citing the protection of children.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Budapest\u2019s liberal mayor Gergely Karacsony tried to circumvent the law when he announced on Monday that since the Budapest Pride march will be a municipal event \u201cno permits from authorities are needed\u201d.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Budapest metropolitan police, however, said the law applied to the event organised by the mayor and banned it.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The police ban has \u201cno relevance\u201d as authorities were not officially notified of the plans for the event, Karacsony said on Facebook.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThe Metropolitan Municipality will host the Budapest Pride Freedom Celebration on June 28, the day of Hungarian freedom, as a municipal event. Period,\u201d the mayor wrote. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the protest.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Orban faces a challenging election in 2026 where a new surging opposition party poses a threat to his rule.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            His government has a Christian conservative agenda and its intensifying campaign against the LGBTQ community has aimed to please Fidesz\u2019s core voters, mostly in the countryside.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Orban said in February that organisers should not even bother organizing Pride in Budapest this year.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian police said on Thursday in a statement that they were banning the Budapest Pride march of the LGBTQ+ community planned for June 28. Hungary\u2019s parliament, in which Prime Minister Viktor Orban\u2019s right-wing Fidesz Party has a big majority, passed legislation in March that created a legal basis for police to ban LGBTQ marches, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}