The president of Hungary vetoes the law that favors anonymous complaints against homosexual families

22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The president of Hungary, Katalin Novak, has refused to promulgate the law that allows any citizen to anonymously denounce homosexual couples who have dependent children, so the text will return to Parliament for a new review.

The law, endorsed this month by the deputies, authorizes citizens to alert the authorities of those behaviors that allegedly violate “the role of marriage and the family recognized in the Constitution” and that do not take into account the rights of children to identify themselves “with the sex of birth”.

Kovak believes that the text weakens certain constitutional protections and includes articles that have nothing to do with the original purpose of the reform to combat corruption, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

The law, he adds, “cites the protection of constitutional values ​​to ambiguously introduce directives that lead to dubious application and legal consequences.”

The prime minister’s party, Viktor Orbán, has enough room to circumvent the president’s veto, although the letter written by Kovak includes infrequent criticism of the work of the government, to which he has generally been sympathetic.

The Hungarian Constitution specifies that marriage is a union “between a man and a woman” and adds that “the mother is a woman and the father is a man”, which implies prohibiting by law any model of adoption or foster care by of homosexual couples.

The Government has also taken measures to limit content or allusions to the LGTBI community in schools, arguing that it is up to families to decide the education of their children. However, his policies have generated doubts among organizations defending Human Rights, as well as in the European Commission.