Viktor Orban has announced that he will call Hungarian citizens to express themselves in a referendum on the law, approved at the beginning of the month, which prohibits exposing minors to any material attributable to LGBT + people: on television as in schools.
As for migrants, in search of an enemy of the homeland, again to gain support by looking at the elections next April, the sovereign premier from Budapest launches the challenge to Brussels and to the founding values of the European Union project: the referendum becomes the tool to reaffirm the “will of the people” and oppose the EU Commission which has just started an infringement procedure on the measure for “discrimination and violation of the rights of LGBT + people”.
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Brussels: “A shame”
The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in the last European summit, had defined the law “a shame”, saying she was determined to “use all the legal powers of the Commission to ensure that the rights of all citizens are guaranteed Europeans “.
The conservative Dutch premier Mark Rutte had called on Orban to “respect the values of the EU or to leave the bloc”. Mario Draghi himself had intervened to ask for the respect of the Treaties also signed by Hungary.
Operation plebiscite
But despite the warnings of the Commission, that for the violation of the rule of law it is ready to freeze the funds destined for Hungary for the post-pandemic recovery, Orban aims to make the referendum a plebiscite: there is no date yet but yes he knows that there will be five questions “to decide – explain from the Budapest government – if it is right to subject children, without restrictions, to videos and discussions in schools regarding sexual orientation and gender change”.