Orbán: opposition united behind the Pride’s rainbow flag but Hungarians reject that ideology
At Saturday’s Pride march, the entirety of the Hungarian opposition “lined up behind the rainbow flag and openly identified with an ideology that the majority of Hungarian society rejects”, the prime minister’s political director said on Facebook.
In a post that included photos taken at the parade, Balázs Orbán said on Sunday that surveys clearly showed that the majority of Hungarians rejected the Pride march. Citing an international survey by Ipsos, he said only 30 percent of Hungarians supported “gender ideology” issues being part of the public discourse, adding that this share was shrinking.
“The left is making the same old mistake: they want to force a rejected ideology onto the majority instead of listening to the real voice of the Hungarian people,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter how many politicians from Brussels and international activists come to demonstrate in Budapest,” Orbán said. “It doesn’t matter how many statements of condemnation Brussels puts out or how many times they drop the intended political nuclear bomb that is Greta Thunberg on Budapest — the Hungarian people will make their own decisions on their own lives.”
Orbán said the Hungarian government represented the majority position, which was that “LGBTQ propaganda should not be a part of our everyday life”, and that “instead we should protect our children, preserve the family and organise society along clear values “.
“Yesterday the opposition showed us the kind of future they intend for Hungary,” he said. “We hope they enjoy marching on under the rainbow flag — but we want no part of it.”
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