From Reuters:
“Romania is not ready to uphold same-sex couples' rights – PM”
(Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu delivers a speech at
the government headquarters, in Bucharest, Romania, June 15, 2023.)
Romanian society is not ready to uphold the rights of
same-sex couples in line with a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling,
leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said late on Thursday. The ECHR ruled in
May Romania had failed to enforce the rights of same-sex couples by refusing to
recognise their relationships, in a ruling which could eventually force
policymakers to expand protections for the LGBT community. Asked whether
Romania will enforce the ruling, Ciolacu told radio station Europa FM that
"the Romanian society is not ready for a decision at the moment. It is not
one of my priorities and ... I don't think Romania is ready." "I am
not a closed-minded person, I ... have friends in relationships with a man, I
don't have a problem with that, I am talking now from the point of view of a
prime minister."
Romania holds local, European, general and presidential
elections in 2024. Ciolacu added it wouldn't be the first or the last time that
Romania fails to enforce ECHR rulings. Socially conservative Romania
decriminalised homosexuality in 2001, decades later than other parts of the
European Union, but still bars marriage and civil partnerships for same-sex
couples.
Three legislative proposals to change civil unions to include
same-sex couples filed between 2016 and 2019 have not yet made it through
parliamentary approval committees, while four similar draft laws had been
rejected by 2020. A referendum to change Romania's constitution to prevent
same-sex couples from securing the right to marry failed to draw enough voters
in 2018. A survey commissioned by LGBT rights group ACCEPT in 2021 showed while
71% of Romanians said legal recognition of civil marriage for same-sex couples
would not have any impact on their lives, only 43% were in favour of it.
^ If Romania wants to be in the Civilized World and still
part of the European Union than they need to give equal rights to all of their
Citizens (Gay and Straight) otherwise they should just leave the EU and join
Russia in its backwardness. ^
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