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Vienna, June 26 (EFE) .- While the controversial anti-LGBT law in Hungary caused an uproar in Western Europe, the former communist countries in the East either supported the legislation or preferred not to comment.
In this region, many governments say they defend Christian and traditional values, while the West sees the Hungarian bill as in conflict with individual freedoms, especially gender identity, which define liberal democracies.
The Polish government, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbns, the main ally in the European Union, has explicitly supported the law.
Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki refused to sign an open letter backed by 17 EU leaders announcing that the bloc will continue to fight discrimination against the LGBTI community.
Poland is the EU country that grants the fewest rights to the LGTBI community, according to a report published by the EU-funded, Brussels-based Rainbow Europe Foundation.
Some 70% of adolescents in LGBTI communities have had thoughts of suicide, according to the Polish NGO Campaign Against Homophobia.
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa, also an ally of Orbn, denounced that the EU’s stormy outrage against Hungary aims to impose LGBTI ideas in schools.
Jansa, who heads an unstable coalition, will assume the rotating EU presidency next week.
The conservative party in power in Croatia, HDZ, has taken an equidistant position to preserve the unity of the blocs.
Words that do not contribute to unity, I think they may cause more concern among member countries, said Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman, considered close to the Hungarian government.
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