Now it appears that the LGBTI community is part of the new enemy group.”Ĭseh is one of two young women who won seats in the European Parliament for Hungary’s newly-founded liberal, pro-EU Momentum party in 2019, a year of political upsets for the hard-right regime of Viktor Orban that saw the opposition advance in local elections and take the mayoralty of capital Budapest.
“It’s usually a group of people in a minority who are weak, who do not have the same opportunities as the majority and they are singled out. “If you want to understand the Orban regime, it’s very important to note that, throughout his governance, and particularly in every election period, there is always one enemy,” says MEP Katalin Cseh on the phone from a taxi as she dashes between meetings in Brussels.
