
(ANSA) - BUDAPEST, JUN 28 - With police authorization, a far-right demonstration has begun in Budapest on the same square in front of City Hall where Pride participants will begin gathering at 2 p.m. Another demonstration by the extremist Our Fatherland (Mi Hazank) party is scheduled to take place on the same announced route as Pride, and a party deputy Elod Novak has threatened to close the Szabadsag (Freedom) Bridge over which the procession intends to pass. "If the police do nothing to prevent the Lbgt march, we will do it with our own means," he said. Pride organizers consider changing the announced route. "Vvd suckers. Demonstrate in Budapest while in your Amsterdam gays are beaten while walking down the street hand in hand, often disproportionately by young Moroccans. Get informed before judging another country!" Dutch sovereignist leader Geert Wilders (Pvv) declares this on social media, lashing out at the right-wing Dutch liberals of the Vvd. "Today is an important day, we are here not only to march in support of the Lgbtqia+ community but to uphold the dignity of Hungarians. Orban attacks civil society, the rule of law, dissent. He also attacks the pro-European forces that we will always stand by the Hungarian people. From here I send a message to the European institutions: we must raise our voices, be more active." This was said by the chairwoman of the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament Iratxe García Perez, opening the joint press conference organized on the occasion of the Budapest pride, in the Eurochamber building in the Hungarian capital, together with the chairwoman of the liberal group Renew Europe Valérie Hayer, Green co-chairwoman Terry Reintke and Left co-chairwoman Manon Aubry. (ANSA).