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The more cornered, the stronger.

That is the strategy chosen by the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, in the face of the storm that has unleashed in the European Union the law promoted by his Government to, supposedly, protect children, prohibiting minors from accessing any information speak of homosexuality and transgender, including in schools.

"The European Parliament and the European Commission

want LGBT activists to have free access to our schools

and kindergartens and that will not happen because it is not what Hungary wants," Orban said, coinciding with the entry into force this Thursday of the law, and of the imposition of the first fines.

Orban, visiting Belgrade, insisted that the spirit that sustains his law is not homophobia, but who has the right to decide the education of their children and there, "the Brussels bureaucrats have nothing to say," he said. "No matter what they do, we are not going to allow LGBT propaganda in our centers," added the Hungarian president in a direct message to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who has threatened Orban with cutting European funds. for reconstruction if he does not withdraw the law, which he called "shameful". And not only because it is homophobic, but because it also

links homosexuality and pedophilia.

Several heads of State and Government have also publicly expressed their rejection of the law, which Orban's party, Fidesz, pushed forward in the Hungarian parliament with the support of the far-right Jobbik party, the same one that supported his referendum against quotas. of shelters of refugees approved in its day by the EU.

One of the most direct European heads of government with Orban has been the Dutch Prime Minister,

Mark Rutte,

who has invited them to leave the EU if he is not willing to defend his values.

The European Parliament increased the pressure on Thursday with a resolution condemning in the harshest terms the Hungarian anti-LGBTIQ law, the dismantling of democracy and the rule of law.

The resolution, approved with 459 votes in favor, 147 against and 58 abstentions, calls, in line with Von der Leyen's warning, for the

blocking of European funds

to Hungary.

Orban is increasingly left alone in his culture war against the West and, although he needs European funds to prop up the country's economy and keep alive the clientelistic network that has built up around his party, for the moment he does not seem willing to back down, hopeful perhaps in the support that his allies in the European Council.

The siege of Orban, however, remains in the EU and has already crystallized in the streets of Budapest.

Several NGOs and the LGBT community have announced that they will disobey the law.

Amnesty International Hungary (AI) and the Háttér association for the rights of the LGBT + community on Thursday symbolized that rebellion with the inflated ten-meter-high balloon, in the shape of a heart and the colors of the rainbow, in front of the Hungarian Parliament.

The president of AI, Dávid Víg, promised that his organization "will not change a letter" neither of its educational programs nor of its campaigns.

"Precisely so that everyone, young and old, can live in Hungary in a dignified, free and being themselves," he said in an act before the media.

First fine: a book of homoparental families

The Government responded that it is prepared to defend the law with all legal resources.

"Hungary will not allow the self-proclaimed apostles of liberal democracy to take care of the education of children instead of parents, the Hungarian Executive has warned.

Some analysts believe that, beyond pointing out a new enemy, as refugees, Brussels or the millionaire George Soros have previously been, Orban has created this controversy to further polarize the population and distract attention from other thorny issues. for the goverment.

In fact, the debate over the homophobic law has taken

corruption cases to

the background

,

the 30,000 deaths left by the pandemic or the transfer of land reserved for public educational equipment for use by Fudan University, controlled by the Chinese dictatorship. Thus, Orban can keep alive until the general elections next spring a controversy that, in addition, has the potential to divide the opposition front, from the extreme right to the left, which had united to try to end its decade of absolute majorities.

Meanwhile, the

first fine

has already been

imposed

for violating the controversial law.

It was for a publishing house that distributed a book that included a family with same-sex parents.

The book in question is the Hungarian translation of the fairy tale "Early One Morning" by the American author Lawrence Schimel.

They have been penalized with 250,000 florins (700 euros).

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