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'Pride Held Every Week on Budapest's Bridges', Claims Szentkirályi

• 9 Apr 2025 12:52 PM

Pride demonstrations are being held every week on Budapest's bridges, Alexandra Szentkiralyi, the Fidesz parliamentary group leader in the capital assembly said.

"This self-serving display by Pride protesters" must not be allowed to paralyse traffic in Budapest, she said in a video post on Facebook, calling on Gergely Karacsony, the mayor, to "get his act together and bring order to the city".

Szentkiralyi faulted the mayor for failing to respond to the needs of city residents "who are planning to move, work, or get home" today, adding that Karacsony preferred paralysis than to "dare speak out against the Pride" occupation of the bridge.



Hadhazy: 'We will dismantle the dictatorship step by step'

Independent lawmaker Akos Hadhazy told a demonstration held against the amendment to the law on the right of assembly that the incumbent government "has been dismantling democracy step by step, brick by brick; we will dismantle the dictatorship step by step, brick by brick."

"The question is who is faster, because the powers that be ... are now [dismantling democracy] with wrecking balls and enormous machinery, and if we don't stop it ... it will win," he told the event held on Elizabeth Bridge on Tuesday afternoon.

Last week, the government submitted a draft legislation to parliament that would enable authorities to strip Hungarian citizens of their citizenship, withdrew from the International Criminal Court "so it can receive a head of state wanted for war crimes and accused of corruption in his own country", and prepared a law on the judiciary "that is even more despicable than earlier ones", he said.
 

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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