If the government receives confirmation on the issues of the child protection referendum, it will give it "double legitimacy", said jr. Constitutional lawyer Zoltán Lomnici, legal expert of Századvég, radio Kossuth Good morning, Hungary! in his program on Monday.
The referendum is a tool of direct democracy - stressed Mr. Zoltán Lomnici, adding: it is needed so that "even in Brussels, you are from the Hungarian left" they feel that the Hungarian government is asking people about the most serious racial issues.
Although the government's decision would be legitimate in itself - even in the case of a related amendment to the Basic Law - it "gives extra weight" to the issue if it is confirmed by a referendum, he pointed out.
The constitutional lawyer said: if the president of the republic decides, even on the day of the parliamentary election, voters can express their opinions on issues related to child protection.
He said: the referendum will be about whether the people support the holding of sessions showing sexual orientation for minors in public educational institutions without the consent of the parents, even promoting sex reassignment surgeries or interventions, showing unlimited sexual media content, or showing sex change display media content.
He noted: in the meantime, it turned out that these topics are not evident in the European Union. Although it is completely clear, and this has been regulated by civil law in Hungary for decades - even under communism - in such a way that incapacitated persons under the age of 14 do not only belong to a special vulnerable group, but also have a different range of motion - he pointed out.
He gave as an example that if a minor child cannot buy a mobile phone with the money he has saved, then how can he be confronted with the question of what sexual identity he wants to choose, and even put him in a decision-making position about gender reassignment surgery without the consent of the parent.
Zoltán Lomnici Jr. quoted from the New York Convention on Child Protection, according to which for the harmonious development of a child's personality, it is necessary to grow up in a family environment, in a happy, loving and understanding atmosphere, but it also states that the family is the fundamental unit of society.
He called it important that political rights should also be guaranteed to children. A 1995 decision of the Hungarian Constitutional Court - made during the Horn government - also stated: ensuring intellectual and moral development is a fundamental right, but parents have primary responsibility, rights and obligations. The state intervenes in the parent-child relationship when the parent cannot or does not want to fulfill his obligations towards the children, emphasized the constitutional lawyer.
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