Documents for him same-sex marriage, In his interview on ERTNews and ERT1's main news bulletin, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis opened.
The Prime Minister announced that the regulation brought by the government Gives the right to adopt a childBut that does not change what is in place regarding surrogacy.
Addressing a conservative audience, he stressed that his government's legal proposal differs from Syriza's.
He also mentioned We will not impose party discipline on the new democracy For the marriage of same-sex couples. But he understood that he expected members of the government to be supportive of participating in the cabinet where the bills were first debated.
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Actually Mr. Mitsotakis He winked at dissenting MPs and boldly presented abstention as a 'solution'. Not to vote, but not to embarrass the government.
“I think abstinence It is a polite attitude that one can express his/her opinion without creating a problem for the government. This is an option that parliamentarians can have,” the prime minister specifically said.
“I know very well that we can because I estimate that not all ND MPs will vote to pass this bill. MPs from other parties should be made to vote for it“, Mr. Mitsotakis also said. Nikos Androulakis, who said that PASOK will not tie the government's shoes, accused him of using the rights issue as a tool.
No timetable
However, he did not say when he would introduce a bill for same-sex marriage. He did not even answer the question whether it would be presented to Parliament before or after the European elections.
“I do not set electoral milestones, weigh political costs or political benefits” said Mr. Mitsotakis. But he assured that he did not initiate the debate to put the matter on the calendar.
“Same-sex couples have children, these children have no rights”
Mr. Mitsotakis explained what the bill provides for same-sex marriage based on maternity. Thus he tried to appease the executives and the disaffected NT voters.
“I think most of our fellow citizens have no objection to marriage,” he assessed, adding that the reservations were mainly about the question of what would happen to the children.
“There are children today. I don't think anyone is denying one reality: same-sex couples have children, and those children don't stop existing, they don't disappear. However, you know these children do not have equal rights,” the Prime Minister pointed out.
He also mentioned a story presented on ERT. “A mother living with her partner may get cancer and die. If this happens, her partner has no right to the child. No rights. This child will go to an institution“, Mr. Mitsotakis added:
“And I ask honestly, I see the point of view of everyone who has some reservations on this issue: we are serving the rights of some couples who already have children by not disciplining some children, who will ultimately suffer. The problem? “
But he responded to the bullying issue by posing a rhetorical question: “When is bullying more or less?” When are these things done in secret or when we talk about these issues openly? I think it's more likely to happen in the first division because of them.”
“Our proposal is different from Syriza's”
In one issue Mr. Mitsotakis hastened: “We do not interfere with the assisted reproduction regimeAs the leader of the opposition said, “I want a boy, I don't care who I give birth to,” emphasizing the idea that women are turning into on-demand baby-producing machines. , that won't happen.
So he made it clear that nothing would change in the assisted reproduction regime. He added: “Most European countries have done what we want to do. They didn't take two steps forward. When I say we move forward as a society, yes, move forward. We will not become a laboratory of experiments in Greece. We will not examine more advanced ideas on rights issues.
He specifically emphasized that a man alone cannot have a child using a surrogate mother. “This is not allowed in Greece”, Mr. Mitsotakis underlined. ““Parent 1” and “Parent 2” will not exist in the bill“” said the Prime Minister.
He explained that in Greece since 1946 a single man has been allowed to adopt the same as a woman. “Maybe tomorrow this man will want to live with someone else. We have already given him the right to adopt,” he noted.
Mr. Mitsotakis also emphasized:Homosexuality is not a “fad of the moment”, it has been around since the dawn of the human race., so children were, are, and may be in the future. We can regulate their rights somehow.
“We are talking about civil marriage, not about crowns, not about rice”
“What we are legislating for is marriage equality. That is, the elimination of any discrimination based on gender orientation in entering into marital relations,” the Prime Minister said.
“What I intend to vote for is not something revolutionary which is already valid in many European countries,” he added. He also noted: “In Europe we have 20 countries where marriage equality is already legal, 15 in the EU” and commented: “We're not going to find bullets, we're not going to do anything that detracts from what's happening. In many European countries.”
Mr. Mitsotakis later said characteristically: “I want to emphasize that we are talking about a civil marriage, right? We are not talking about a church or a crown here. I say this because I know there will always be an image.. No to sarcasm, nothing like that”.
“We will listen to the Church, I don't know if we will agree”
The prime minister declared: “As much as I respect the opinion of the Church, I absolutely respect our fellow citizens who hold a different opinion.” He recalled that the Church was against both civil marriage and cremation of the dead. But the state legislated without dictating the Church to do something against the core of its theological approach.
“So, obviously we will listen to the views of the Church, I don't know if we can agree. We will respect the different point of view, but the state legislates, it does not legislate together with the Church,” he stressed.
Mr. Mitsotakis also commented: “Major reforms in family law have always been carried out by the centre-left and as a rule lagged behind centre-right developments.” He recalled: “In 1982, when the great revolution in family law came, the ND voted against provisions that now seem perfectly clear to us: decriminalization of adultery, criminalization of domestic violence, the opportunity for a woman to keep her last name.”
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