Parliament has approved an amendment to the law on assembly connected to the protection of children which triggered a protest action by opposition lawmakers.

According to MTI, the amendment was passed in an extraordinary procedure with 136 votes in favor and 27 against.

The new law states that any assembly in Hungary can only be held if it respects children's rights for proper physical, intellectual and moral development, therefore it is forbidden to hold an assembly that violates the ban regulated in the law on the protection of children.

Lawmakers of opposition Momentum disrupted the vote from the back benches by lighting smoke flares, playing a recording of the Soviet national anthem and throwing down flyers in the chamber from the first floor.

Commenting on Momentum’s act, the group leader of ruling Fidesz Mate Kocsis said in a post on Facebook that "the little bolsheviks of today financed from abroad" attempted to bloc the vote by lighting poisonous flares in an indoor space."

He noted that their lawmaker Gabor Banyai, who had hardly survived Covid, needed emergency medical care after Momentum’s action in the chamber.

"What will come next, you, dumbheads, will you even set fire to the Parliament?"