Hungarian Prime Minister has announced his government will hold a referendum on the country’s widely controversial anti-LGBTQ+ law.
On Wednesday (July 21), the prime minister of Hungary stated the upcoming referendum on “child protection”, which alludes to the discriminatory law which has been passed.
The law bans portrayals of LGBTQ+ content in schools through amendments that were made to a national child sex abuse law. It strictly refers to “content promoting gender change or homosexuality” within the school curriculum.
“LGBTQ+ activists visit kindergartens and schools and conduct sexual education classes. They want to do this here in Hungary as well,” Orban stated in a Facebook video on Wednesday.
The referendum, which was announced three days before the Budapest Pride march, will consist of five pre-prepared questions.
The Guardian published one of the included questions will be: “Do you support minors being shown, without any restriction, media content of a sexual nature that is capable of influencing their development?”
Hungary’s law has widely been compared to Russia’s “gay propaganda” law, which was passed in 2013, that bans disseminating “propaganda on nontraditional sexual relations” among Russians.
Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been a key strategy to appeal to right-wing supporters and conservative voters. However, Orbán’s comments have not been without backlash.
On July 8, 459 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted in favour of the resolution, with 147 against and 58 abstaining in Strasbourg
MEPs called the Hungarian law “a clear breach of the EU’s values, principles and law” and urged the European Commission to pursue a legal case against Viktor Orbán’s government.
Lawmakers in Hungary passed legislation on Tuesday (15 June) banning “content promoting gender change or homosexuality” within the school curriculum.
In a statement, European lawmakers called “on the Commission to launch an accelerated infringement procedure and to use all tools in the Court of Justice, such as interim measures and penalties for non-compliance if necessary.
They also call on the member states to bring the matter to the CJEU (Court of Justice of the European Union) should the Commission not act, and to launch an inter-state application to the European Court of Human Rights.”
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