Hungary should get rid of both EU grants and voting rights
This week, the Hungarian Parliament voted to ban Pride. No demonstrations or other gatherings that « describe or advocate » homosexuality should be allowed in public places, where children under 18 can risk seeing them. According to Viktor Orbán and his right -wing populist Fidesz, the purpose is to protect the children.
It seems However, it has not always been the priority of the party. A year ago, it was revealed that several high -ranking persons in Fidesz, including both the president and the Minister of Justice, participated in and pardoned a person who had protected an orphanage who for years abused boys who lived at home. After extensive popular protests, both the president and the Minister of Justice were forced to resign.
Such peasant victims can be managed to handle. Worse was that the scandal brought out the Minister of Justice and former Fidesz politician Peter Magyar in the limelight. From there, he harshly criticized both Orbán and the Hungarian elite at large, which he meant only enriched himself and let the state decay in corruption and misconduct.
Once again Hungary violates the basic values formulated in the EU Charter
Many people agreed, and just a few months later Magyar’s newly started party Tisza unexpectedly managed to win almost 30 percent of the vote in the Hungarian election to the European Parliament. The popular dissatisfaction has not disappeared. In the opinion polls for next year’s parliamentary elections, Tisza is currently equal to or even before Fidesz.
It is in this The perspective to see the new Pride ban. For the first time in almost two decades, Orbán is facing a serious challenger about power and he desperately wants to shift focus from the widespread frustration with corruption and economy to the cultural war issues where he more easily believes he can win.
However, this does not mean that the EU can let him be held. Once again, Hungary violates the basic values formulated in the EU Charter, once again Orbán shows that he does not want to be part of the free, democratic world.
Orbán’s contempt For the democratic principles that the EU stands for is as clear as his proximity to the Russia that is our greatest enemy. He and Hungary should be deprived of both EU grants and voting rights. In today’s security policy situation, everything else is just a European self -harm behavior.
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