Politics

Analysis: What Hungary’s Pride march revealed about the limits of Orbán’s control

Stuart Dowell
 02.07.2025, 16:01
Between 180,000 and 200,000 people marched across Budapest’s Elisabeth Bridge in defiance of PM Viktor Orbán government's ban. Photo: PAP/EPA/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK; PAP/Wiktor Dąbkowski
Between 180,000 and 200,000 people marched across Budapest’s Elisabeth Bridge in defiance of PM Viktor Orbán government's ban. Photo: PAP/EPA/SZILARD KOSZTICSAK; PAP/Wiktor Dąbkowski

Orbán issued the threats, installed the cameras and then nothing happened.