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Hungary’s PM Orban warns of legal consequences over banned Budapest Pride march

By Thomson Reuters Jun 27, 2025 | 1:26 AM

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be “legal consequences” for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event, planned for Saturday.

“We are adults, and I recommend that everyone should decide what they want, keep to the rules … and if they don’t, then they should face the clear legal consequences,” Orban told state radio.

He said police could disperse a banned event but Hungary was a “civilised country” and the task for police was to convince people to follow the law.

(Reporting by Krisztina Than; editing by Mark Heinrich)