"Just as Hungary and the Hungarian nation respects the domestic affairs of other states, we expect foreign politicians and pseudo-civil organisations to refrain from forcing their views and their will on us," she said.

The majority of Hungarian society respects traditions and holds conservative views, therefore it resists the "unscientific misconceptions of the provocative gender ideology financed by global capital", the MEP said.

Only the Hungarian people can decide how the Hungarian nation wants to live and what examples it wants to follow or what it considers harmful for its own community, she added.

Borvendeg said this was not discrimination or a violation of rights, since Hungarian laws protect the right to privacy, and "we consider the sexual orientation of citizens to be a private matter". Presenting this as a public matter was contrary to Hungarians' traditions and customs, she added.

The MEP said she was outraged by the fact that members of the European Parliament wanted to participate today "in an event that is indecent and scandalously provocative to the majority of society, which is clearly prohibited by Hungarian law".
 

This, she said, was not simply illegal behaviour, but a violation of Hungary's sovereignty, aggravated by the fact that one of the MEPs "arriving with provocative intent" was Ilaria Salis. "Ilaria Salis, who along with her companions beat up innocent and randomly selected people on the streets of Budapest because they assumed that their worldview and way of thinking were different from theirs," Borvendeg said.


Earlier: Our Homeland ‘prepared to go against’ Budapest Pride march

The Our Homeland Movement "is prepared to go against" the Pride march, Elod Novak, the opposition party’s deputy leader told a press conference at the Pest bridgehead of Liberty Bridge in Budapest on Saturday afternoon.
 

Novak called the march "deviant", saying it was his party that represented normality.

"Today the government’s conservative and child-protection policy collapsed for good," Novak said, insisting that ruling Fidesz had "given up protecting normality".

He criticised the police for not having broken up the Budapest Pride event, which they considered unlawful.

Novak said police were impeding Our Homeland’s protest by not letting them proceed to the areas they had reserved.

He added that he hoped the police would not take action against his party’s lawful demonstration.

Police are blocking Our Homeland’s protesters from proceeding onto the bridge. A few counter-demonstrators also appeared at the scene, leading to an altercation between the two camps, but police did not need to step in.

Meanwhile, Szentkiralyi: Budapest mayor 'setting up no-go zones for parents, children'

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony "wans parents to avoid certain parts of the city if they do not want their children to meet naked people in the street," the Fidesz-Christian Democrats group leader of Budapest said on Friday, adding that Karacsony was "essentially setting up no-go zones for parents and children."

Alexandra Szentkiralyi said on Facebook that Karacsony's approach was "extremely cynical". "As a mother, I refuse to be the one to avoid certain areas where I might find something like what I saw in Vienna," she said, referring to the Vienna Pride parade of which she recently posted a video.

"Karacsony and Tisza's Pride parade is called Pride March. They are proud to have used all types of tricks and legal loopholes to put adults' sexuality on display in the street. This is what pride means to them, this makes them proud," she said referring to a planned event in Budapest. "We believe that everyone should do what they want in the bedroom", people can freely express their opinion and can freely assemble, but "children's rights are a priority".

"The Pride parade is about nothing else but provocation, adults' sexuality, nudity. None of which should be shown to children," she added.

Szentkiralyi said "we represent other values ... it is not gender propaganda and provocation that we are proud of but our family, our children, our homeland, our work, our community and our identity".
 

She encouraged her followers to post images of what they are proud of and share her message.
 

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