The rainbow revolution: How Hungary PM Viktor Orbán’s fight against LGBT rights backfired — and what it could mean for his hold on power
The rainbow revolution: How Hungary PM Viktor Orbán’s fight against LGBT rights backfired — and what it could mean for his hold on power
The rainbow revolution: How Viktor Orbán’s fight against LGBT rights backfired — and what it could mean for his hold on power
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3720302
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“Ideological attacks against the LGBT community and the gender question in general are not specific to Hungary or Russia. This is a global movement — a political, radical, conservative movement,” says Zsuzsanna Szelényi, program director of the CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy and author of Tainted Democracy: [Hungary PM] Viktor Orbán and the Subversion of Hungary.
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In 2011-2012, after Vladimir Putin announced that he would be running for a third presidential term, Moscow saw its largest protest wave since before the collapse of the Soviet Union. In response to the Bolotnaya movement, the Russian authorities decided to curb the opposition's traction at any cost, launching a brutal crackdown on political events while arresting — and even assassinating — key opponents. The symbolic prosecution of participants in the Bolotnaya protests demonstrated to would-be demonstrators that no one who took to the streets in opposition to Putin was immune to prosecution — not even those who did so peacefully. Could Orbán, who closely studies and borrows from the experience of his “big brother,” follow the same path? Experts interviewed by The Insider believe this is unlikely to happen.
And the first consequences of the Pride march seem to confirm this. On July 3, the first administrative case was opened against a Pride participant — a young activist named Lili Pankotai. However, by July 9, the case was dropped, and the police officially announced they would not prosecute Pride participants.
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