08/07/2021 (Agence Europe) – A large majority of MEPs backed a resolution condemning Hungary’s discriminatory law against LGBTI people (see EUROPE 12748/1) on Thursday 8 July. 459 MEPs voted in favour and 147—mainly from the ID and ECR groups—voted against. 58 abstained: among them, a majority of EPP, Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian, French, Spanish, and Italian MEPs. In this resolution, Parliament calls for the launch of an accelerated infringement proceeding against Hungary. Concerned about the similarity between this law and the 2013 Russian law on “LGBT propaganda”, MEPs also call on “the Commission to further investigate the financing of anti-LGBTIQ campaigns in the EU”. The resolution also echoes many of the recommendations made by MEPs in the chamber on Wednesday (see EUROPE 12757/1). For the text as adopted: https://bit.ly/2SY59yf (AC)