Minister Varga said it was regrettable that leading European politicians had formed an opinion on the child protection law before engaging in meaningful dialogue on the matter with Hungary’s authorities.
Minister Varga said Italy’s government was alone in understanding Hungary’s “solid arguments” in the legal dispute over its child protection law.
Tamás Menczer responded on Facebook to a tweet by Jan Lipavský in which he said he was “sorry that Czechia would not join the European lawsuit over Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ law”.
Being pro-children and pro-family does not mean we’re anti-gay.
Tamás Deutsch said that in a referendum last year “nearly 4 million parents and grandparents” had supported the legislation against “gender ideology” and “increasingly aggressive attacks by LGBTQ activists”.
The justice minister said the Hungarian government will use every legal tool at its disposal to protect the will expressed by the Hungarian people in last year’s referendum on child protection.
“Our child protection law has come under attack … so the fight continues,” said Máté Kocsis.
Judit Varga said Hungary’s Child Protection Act is under attack on a new front, noting that the United Nations Human Rights Council reviews the situation of human rights in every country every five years.
We're not surprised because the president of the Court had already indicated what decision we could expect: One that’s purely political.
The justice minister wrote on Facebook that the “attack” on Hungary’s child protection law, which the EU says discriminates against LGBTQ people, is “unfair”, as education is a national competency.
The president has set the date for the government-initiated referendum on Hungary’s child protection law for April 3.
Hungary’s Constitutional Court rejected all claims against a planned referendum on Hungary’s child protection law.
Speaking about the upcoming referendum on the child protection law, Prime Minister Orbán recalled that we have already managed to stop Brussels once on the issue of migrant quotas.