Budapest’s mayor said the Hungarian capital would organize this year’s Pride parade under its own auspices to shield it from attempts by national authorities to ban the LGBTQ event.

The announcement by mayor Gergely Karacsony, a prominent critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, followed a police decision earlier this month to reject a petition to hold the annual parade in Budapest. The police’s move was in line with Orban’s guidance and a recent law that casts the event as a threat to children’s development.

The Budapest Pride parade will be held on June 28 and be co-organized by the Rainbow Mission Foundation, Karacsony said in a Facebook post on Monday.

— Bloomberg