Elected leaders from across Europe should join us on the streets. It is critical to democracy \u2013 in Hungary, and the EU as a whole<\/p>\n
Hungary\u2019s parliament has given Viktor Orb\u00e1n the tools to do what he has long threatened: ban Pride<\/a>, silence dissent and strip political critics of their citizenship. A constitutional amendment<\/a> passed on 14 April allows the government to label LGBTQ+ gatherings a threat to children and to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals deemed a risk to \u201cnational sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n This is a purge disguised as law \u2013 another step in Orb\u00e1n\u2019s dismantling of democracy, where the constitution is degraded to a propaganda instrument. He calls it<\/a> a \u201cspring clean-up\u201d to root out \u201cbugs\u201d, targeting LGBTQ+ people, journalists, critics, civil society and now, dual nationals. As one myself, I could be among the targets.<\/p>\n Katalin Cseh is a member of the Hungarian national assembly for the Momentum Movement and a former MEP<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elected leaders from across Europe should join us on the streets. It is critical to democracy \u2013 in Hungary, and the EU as a whole Hungary\u2019s parliament has given Viktor Orb\u00e1n the tools to do what he has long threatened: ban Pride, silence dissent and strip political critics of their citizenship. A constitutional amendment passed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}