Viktor Orban had a difficult evening on Thursday evening in Brussels. At the Twenty-Seven summit, European leaders strongly attacked the Hungarian Prime Minister’s law banning the dissemination of content on homosexuality to minors, which sparked strong reactions in Europe.
“Why do you want to stay in the EU?”
Each leader has spoken in his own style to criticize Viktor Orban. Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel gave him a personal testimony. “I didn’t become gay. I am,” he explained, before adding, “And my mom hates that fact, I have to live with it.” An allusion to the fact that Hungarian law provides that parents are the only influence on the sexual orientation of their children.
Then his Dutch counterpart Marc Rutte intervened brutally. “If you do things like that, why do you want to stay in the European Union?” He told his Hungarian colleague, who replied that he had not read the law, that it was just about protecting the children.
“You were a liberal”
The President of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen then read excerpts from the text, which amalgamate between homosexuality and pedophilia. And Emmanuel Macron asked: “Viktor … You were a liberal. What happened to you?” Swedish leader Stefan Löfven warned him that his taxpayers would not pay for a country that does not respect human rights.
In the end, only the Polish and Slovenian leaders supported Orban. However, at the end of this “intense and passionate” debate, according to one participant, the latter did not bow. “He is not going to withdraw his law, he has elections soon,” said a French source who continued: “But now, the situation of LGBT people has become a political issue in Europe.”
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