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The centre-right government has dropped the most controversial parts of its equality draft bill, including sections on preventing violence in gay families, regulations on detentions and imprisonments of transsexuals, and allowing schools to use manuals that do not promote “the current family centered society”, writes Rzeczpospolita.
Provisions to increase women’s presence on state companies’ supervisory and management boards have also been watered down. The original version of the draft called for a 30 per cent minimum quota for women, but now only mentions “aiming” to achieve this figure.
According to commentators quoted by the daily, the changes represent Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s desire “to extinguish ideological conflicts” within the co-ruling Civic Platform (PO). In April, the PM fired Justice Minister Jarosław Gowin, the leader of the party’s conservative wing, who voted against the civil partnership bill prepared by PO.
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