ハンガリー議会、一連の反ＬＧＢＴＱ法案を可決

【ブダペストＡＦＰ＝時事】ハンガリー議会で15日、厳しい立場に置かれている国内のLGBTQ（性的少数者）を狙った政策に関する一連の法案が可決された。（写真は資料写真）
　国家主義的で保守的なオルバン・ビクトル政権を支持する議員らが成立させた新法の一つは、養子縁組できるのは結婚したカップルのみとし、同性カップルが養子を取ることを事実上禁じ、家族青年問題国務大臣が承認した場合のみ例外を認める。
　政府はここ数か月、反ＬＧＢＴＱ的な姿勢を強めてきた。オルバン首相は１０月、同性愛者のキャラクターが登場する子ども向けの本に関する論争の中で、「（同性愛者は）子どもたちに近寄るべきではない」と述べていた。
　１５日、議会は「母親は女性、父親は男性」とする憲法改正も承認した。
　政府は改憲について、「西欧における新しいイデオロギー的な動き」によって、「起こりうるイデオロギー的あるいは生物学的な干渉から子どもたちを守る」ことが必要になったと説明している。
　改正憲法は、子どもの性別を出生時に定められたものと定義し、ハンガリーのキリスト教文化に沿った子どもの養育を保証するとしている。
　ハンガリーでは５月に合法的に性別を変えることができなくなり、人権団体はトランスジェンダーの人たちが差別される恐れがあると警告している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/12/16-10:00）

Hungarian MPs on Tuesday approved a package of new measures targeting the country's beleaguered LGBTQ community, the government's latest salvo in defence of traditional values.
One law overwhelmingly passed by MPs loyal to the nationalist, culturally conservative government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban effectively bars same-sex couples from adopting children by restricting adoption to married couples.
Exceptions to the ban will have to be approved by the minister for family affairs.
The government has sharpened its anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in recent months, with Orban commenting in October that homosexuals should leave our children alone when discussing a row over a children's book containing gay characters.
On Tuesday MPs also approved a change to the constitution reading: The mother is a woman, the father is a man.
The government explained the change by saying new ideological processes in the West made it necessary to protect children against possible ideological or biological interference.
The same amendment defines children's sex as that assigned to them at birth and ensures the upbringing of children according to... (Hungary's) Christian culture.
In May a ban on legally changing one's gender came into force, with rights groups warning this would expose transgender Hungarians to discrimination.
In 2018 a government decree effectively banned universities from teaching courses on gender studies.
- 'Dark day' -
David Vig, Hungary director of Amnesty International said that these discriminatory, homophobic and transphobic new laws are just the latest attack on LGBTQ people by Hungarian authorities.
This is a dark day for Hungary?s LGBTQ community and a dark day for human rights, Vig said.
The constitution adopted after Orban came to power had already defined marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman.
A key figure in the drafting of that document, Jozsef Szajer, resigned as an MEP last month after being caught at what Belgian police said was an illegal all-male sex party that breached virus lockdown rules.
Apart from brief statements condemning Szajer's actions, the government and the pro-Orban press have largely ignored the embarrassing scandal and continued espousing their culturally conservative messages.
On Monday, Minister for Families Katalin Novak sparked an outcry with a video message on her Facebook page in which she said women should not always try to compete with men professionally.
Don't think that at every moment or our lives we have to all compare ourselves and have the same job, the same salary as the other, Novak said in her remarks, which were criticised by feminist activists.
Also on Tuesday MPs passed a change to the country's electoral law which means that parties wishing to contest national elections will have to stand candidates in at least 14 out of 19 provinces and put forward a much higher number of individual candidates than previously required.
The government says this is to prevent sham parties claiming state funds.
However, many in the opposition suspect the real purpose is to hinder the chances of allied opposition candidates standing against Orban's Fidesz party in particular seats in the next legislative elections in 2022.
A poll conducted last week put a hypothetical joint opposition list marginally ahead of Fidesz.