Budapest: Hungary plans to hold a referendum to laws that limit school teaching about homosexuality and transgender problems this year or early next year, said Prime Minister Viktor Organ staff said on Thursday.
Orban announced a referendum on Wednesday, increasing cultural war with the European Union.
The European Commission last week began legal action on these steps, which have been included in the amendment of the Education and Child Protection Act.
If successful, Brussels can withstand funds for Hungary while restrictions are maintained.
“For Hungary, there are many more arguments that support the European Union membership rather than against it.
Joining the EU is the right decision, it is in our national interests and remains a case,” Gullyas, the Chief of Staff of the Oraban, told the direction of weekly news.
But he said Hungary believed that it had the right to comment on what he called “club rules” and made his own decisions on problems where he did not submit authority to the UE institution.
Asked about the referendum, the EU Commission said it did not interfere with the method of making policy of member countries, although it was considered a discriminatory Hungarian law.
The steps, which have led to anxiety in the LGBT community, prohibits the use of materials that are seen as promoting homosexuality and gender change in schools, as if it were an action to prevent child abuse.
Several civil rights groups have criticized the Reform of Organizations and global surveys last month by the IPSSS polling organization found that 46% Hungary supported same-sex marriage.
Glyly said Hungary was still in talks with the Commission about the plan to recover its national pandemic.
But he added that the government would begin a pre-financing project from the national budget.
The European Commission enrolled serious concerns about the rules of law in Poland and Hungary in a report on Tuesday that could help decide whether they received billions of euros in the European Union funds to help recover from a pandemic.
Orban, who has been in power since 2010 and faces the election in April, describes itself as a defender of traditional Christian values on Western liberalism.
He owe some of his election’s success to hardlines against immigration, but because the subject stopped dominating the agenda, he had nailed color with gender and sexuality problems.
Hungary to hold a referendum on the LGBT problem at the beginning of 2022
