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Marchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

n.prAround 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's banMarchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing party.

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Everyone says GOP+TRUMP intend Trump to be USA's First Dictatorship. Trump, a cruel heartless greedy man would then have NO checks. Trump/GOP=mirroring Orban's path. Trump/GOP are attacking/destroying US Democracy & to enable GOP Authoritarian Rule & GROSS PROFIT. Result=Majority of Americans lose

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, Hungary transitioned into a democratic parliamentary republic. Viktor Orban, Prime Minister since 2010 turned Hungary into a dictatorship. 👉 It doesn’t take much, watch Trump, a little tweak here, a little tweak there and you have a dictatorship.

The thing is though, it wasn't actually illegal, in that if this was brought before the European Courts, they'd strike it down. What thex were gambling on was police ignorance, which is still very brave

“They have trapped themselves by trying to ban something that cannot be banned.”

John Hatchard@johnhatchard.bsky.social

"In spite of the ban, tens of thousands of people marched through Budapest on Saturday during the city’s 30th annual Pride march. At least 70 European Parliament members also attended. “They have trapped themselves by trying to ban something that cannot be banned,”"

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