Hungary’s parliament has handed a constitutional modification recognizing solely two genders, female and male. The transfer runs counter to a broader EU coverage on LGBTQ rights.
The modification to the Fundamental Regulation, proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition, was adopted on Monday with 140 votes in favor and 21 in opposition to, with no abstentions.
Below the adjustments, the structure now states that Hungary shall defend the establishment of marriage because the voluntary “union of 1 man and one girl” and the household as the idea of the survival of the nation. Household ties ought to be primarily based on marriage or the connection between mother and father and youngsters. “The mom shall be a girl; the daddy shall be a person,” the textual content reads.
The modification additionally codifies a ban on public LGBTQ+ occasions and declares that kids’s rights to ethical, bodily, and non secular improvement supersede another basic rights, besides the correct to life.
In 2020, Hungary abolished the authorized recognition of transgender individuals, and in 2021 amended its little one safety legal guidelines to ban the promotion of LGBTQ matters in media, promoting, and academic supplies accessible to minors. The measures sparked a backlash in Brussels, with the European Fee launching authorized motion in opposition to Budapest, referring the case to the European Court docket of Justice, and freezing billions in EU funds over alleged violations of basic rights.
Forward of Monday’s vote, opposition politicians and different protesters tried to dam the doorway to the parliamentary parking storage to forestall ruling get together lawmakers from getting into. Through the session, opposition lawmakers used air horns in an try to disrupt the proceedings. They’ve denounced the adjustments as a retreat from democracy and an assault on the core values of the EU, of which Hungary has been a member since 2004.
Commenting on the modification, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated the worldwide gender community “should take its arms off our youngsters.”
He added, referring to US President Donald Trump’s ending of Washington’s long-standing promotion of variety and inclusion: “Now, with the change in America, the winds have shifted in our favor.”
In December, Orban declared that the West’s 500-year hegemony was over and the “coming century would be the century of Eurasia,” saying the technique of ‘westernizing’ the world had failed and that international locations in a position to defend their values would come out forward.
Final week in Slovakia, one other EU member, a draft constitutional regulation aimed toward enshrining two genders handed its second studying.
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