'Sejm will not pass civil partnership bills'

Published on 14 January 2013 at 09:52

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The Polish parliament (Sejm) will next week debate three draft bills giving civil partnership rights to homosexuals couples. All three proposals, two of them presented by the Left Democratic Alliance and Palikot’s Movement and one by the ruling Civic Platform, do not grant gay couples in civil partnerships the same rights as married couples, and “there is no majority yet in the Sejm to pass any of the projects,” stresses the daily.

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