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The ultra-conservative president asks Brussels for “tolerance” with its laws that persecute abortion, homosexuality and critical media
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbánhas threatened to take the country out of European Union (EU). During an electoral act held this Saturday in Budapestthe controversial ultra-conservative president has openly mentioned this possibility for the first time and has accused Brussels of having launched “a holy war, a jihad” in the name of the rule of law.
Orbán, who is playing for re-election on April 3, has also asked the community club for “tolerance” with Hungary because otherwise it will be impossible to continue on a common path. “We want to keep the EU together and that is why we have repeatedly made offers of tolerance. We do not expect them to adopt the immigration policyfamily, national or foreign from Hungary, but do not expect us to adopt their policies either”, he argued. “The EU must move forward, not go backwards”, he stressed.
The European Court of Justice (TEU) will decide next Wednesday on the appeals presented by Hungary and Poland against the rule of law protection mechanism approved by Brussels in December 2020.
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European organizations and organizations in favor of Human Rights accuse Orbán of dismantling the democracy since he came to power in 2010. And it is that throughout his mandate he has launched a partisan reform of the national Constitution that included a new electoral law that benefits his ultra-conservative formation, as well as a limitation of the abortion, the persecution of the media critical of the government or a law that criminalizes homosexualitya condition that is equated to pedophilia and of which it is forbidden to speak in schools.
In response, Orbán assured this Saturday that “for them, the rule of law means that they want to bring us to our knees and co-invest us in something that looks like them.” The president, referring to the extreme right continent, has argued that Hungary does not want to be the same as Western Europe. “There is no other solution than tolerance. It is the only way for us to find a common path,” she pointed out.