Overview
- Saturday's Pride in Budapest drew tens of thousands of participants who marched and celebrated in hot weather without police bans or official harassment.
- The European Court of Justice found parts of Hungary's expanded 'child protection' rules incompatible with EU law, and Hungary's prosecutors used that ruling to drop a high-profile case against Mayor Gergely Karácsony.
- The controversial 2025 move to link assembly rules to the child protection law had allowed authorities to ban last year's parade and helped turn that event into a large anti-Fidesz protest.
- Prime Minister Péter Magyar has publicly said people should be free to love whom they choose while avoiding policy commitments and he did not attend the parade, reflecting his cautious, non-confrontational approach.
- Hard-right actors still perform hostile gestures such as a recent video of a rainbow flag thrown into the Danube, and the main political question now is whether the unenforced law will be formally repealed or quietly remain unused.