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Hungarian MPs scrap Orbán's anti-LGBTQ measures
This year's Budapest Pride march went ahead without restrictions, a year after the Orbán government tried to ban it
The Hungarian parliament has voted to amend child protection laws, scrapping measures that stigmatise gay and transgender people. LGBTQ and human rights activists warmly welcomed the move, but called for changes to other Orbán-era laws.
The 2021 Child Protection Law, passed by the large Fidesz majority of then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, banned the "portrayal or promotion of homosexuality or transgenderism".
Since Orbán's April election defeat, the Tisza government of Péter Magyar has been working to dismantle the previous government's legacy.
Minutes after Tuesday's vote, Budapest said the EU had agreed to release €4.2bn (£3.5bn) of funds frozen in the last years of the Fidesz government.
The European Commission said last month that the Magyar government had addressed a number of "rule of law breaches affecting the EU budget", and urged EU leaders to unlock the funds , externaland readmit Hungary to two key EU programmes - Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe.
Hungary's 2021 law had affected a wide range of other laws, including education and the right of assembly.
Magyar's Tisza party commands the same two-thirds majority that Orbán's party used to have, and the measures passed on Tuesday were bundled together by the new government in a package of laws designed to unravel the Fidesz legislation.
"We are very happy that this got adopted," Tamás Dombos of civil rights group the Háttér Society told the BBC. "We've been fighting this so-called child protection law for five years. There have been problems with the bill submitted to parliament, but most of those problems have been fixed."
Both the Fidesz and Tisza governments made child protection central to their image.