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Hun­gary’s par­lia­ment on Mon­day passed an amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion that al­lows the gov­ern­ment to ban pub­lic events by LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ties, a de­ci­sion that le­gal schol­ars and crit­ics call an­oth­er step to­ward au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism by the pop­ulist gov­ern­ment.

The amend­ment, which re­quired a two-thirds vote, passed along par­ty lines with 140 votes for and 21 against. It was pro­posed by the rul­ing Fidesz-KD­NP coali­tion led by pop­ulist Prime Min­is­ter Vik­tor Or­bán.

Ahead of the vote — the fi­nal step for the amend­ment — op­po­si­tion politi­cians and oth­er pro­test­ers at­tempt­ed to block­ade the en­trance to a par­lia­ment park­ing garage. Po­lice phys­i­cal­ly re­moved demon­stra­tors, who had used zip ties to bind them­selves to­geth­er.