Tens of thousands to attend Budapest Pride in defiance of Orban's ban in Hungary

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00:00Despite being banned, Hungary's capital is preparing to celebrate pride.

00:05Budapest's liberal mayor has turned the march into a municipal event,

00:10celebrating freedom to circumvent the ban.

00:15I very much hope that the attempt to ban the Pride March will go down in Hungarian history

00:19as the greatest of political own goals.

00:22The ban may well backfire politically.

00:25He's receiving support from across the EU, including the EU Commission.

00:31And people from across Europe are travelling to the event

00:34to both celebrate and show their solidarity,

00:37including an expected 70 members of the EU Parliament.

00:42On the eve of Saturday's march, people gather at a local bar.

00:46From more than 40 countries, people are coming to support the Pride March.

00:51So I think it's going to be awesome, and I think it's going to be the biggest Pride March

00:56that was ever launched in Budapest.

00:59Though the prime minister has warned of legal consequences for attending the event,

01:04he said police would not use force to stop it.

01:07Of course the police could dispense such events.

01:11They have the right to do it.

01:12But Hungary is a civilized country, a civilized place.

01:16Here we don't want to hurt others.

01:17More ominously, he's allowed far-right and neo-Nazi groups permission

01:22to stage counter-protests along the same route.

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