The Hungarian Parliament has approved a controversial constitutional amendment that shields the prohibition of LGTBI+ pride marches in the country by putting “childhood protection” to other fundamental rights such as meeting and free expression.
The reform, approved by 140 votes in a parliament of 199 seats, It was promoted by the ultra -nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and has been supported by the absolute majority of two thirds of his party, the Fidesz.
The approved amendment establishes in the Constitution that “the right of the minor to the proper physical, mental and spiritual development will prevail over all other fundamental rightswith the exception of the right to life “, which means that the right to meeting will be subordinated to this” childhood protection. “
In his February speech, Viktor Orbán said they want to further strengthen biological sex in the fundamental law. “The birth sex of a human being is a biological endowment, which, according to the order of creation, can be masculine or female,” justifies the amendment. “The man is male or female”he adds.
In this way, it joins other countries that also have armored the rights of homosexuals in their constitutions. In 2024, they were 64 The jurisdictions that criminalized homosexuality and 12 those who contemplated the death penalty in their laws.
