PM against gay unions as a matter of policy
01/10/2008
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ILGA-Europe
Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates has this week appeared to turn down a proposed law change which was intended to legalise gay unions and which will be debated in Parliament next month.
During a bi-monthly debate in Parliament, the Prime Minister confirmed this proposition was neither on the Government’s nor the Socialist Party’s political agenda.
“Homosexual unions are not on the political agenda”, he said, reiterating what he said three years ago during electoral campaigning.
“It is not in the Government’s programme and the PS will not being instructed by other parties”.
Two projects comprising suggested law changes to accommodate homosexual unions are to be scheduled for October 10th and have caused great controversy amongst political parties.
MP Heloísa Apolónia, of the Greens and creator of one of the two law decree proposals that will be discussed next month, said, “This country, when it waits for the Socialists to promote equality, is always put on hold”.
Source: The Portugal News, 27 September 2008
http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=978-5
During a bi-monthly debate in Parliament, the Prime Minister confirmed this proposition was neither on the Government’s nor the Socialist Party’s political agenda.
“Homosexual unions are not on the political agenda”, he said, reiterating what he said three years ago during electoral campaigning.
“It is not in the Government’s programme and the PS will not being instructed by other parties”.
Two projects comprising suggested law changes to accommodate homosexual unions are to be scheduled for October 10th and have caused great controversy amongst political parties.
MP Heloísa Apolónia, of the Greens and creator of one of the two law decree proposals that will be discussed next month, said, “This country, when it waits for the Socialists to promote equality, is always put on hold”.
Source: The Portugal News, 27 September 2008
http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=978-5
