• 19/02/2023
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Double meter: weddings allowed.Bundles of homosexuals only if one dies<

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Even in times of strict measures due to the coronavirus, weddings are allowed to take place, although there can be a maximum of ten participants. But now it has become clear that the exception does not apply to registered partnerships. According to Ministry of Health regulations, gays and lesbians can enter into a union "only if this step is urgent".

These are, for example, cases where one of the partners is in such bad health that he might not live to see the postponed ceremony, or a couple where one of the partners' residence permit will soon expire. If the situation is urgent, couples should consult with the registrar. Only two people can be present at the ceremony, the registrar and possibly an interpreter.

The organization Jsme fér drew attention to the contradiction in the measure, which intends to write an open letter to Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Minister of the Interior Jan Hamáček. "There is a need for the measures for registered partnerships to change, and we will appeal for this not to happen again," Filip Milde, press spokesman for the Jsme fér organization, told Seznam Zprávám. According to him, the initiative will also want to know how something like this could happen in the first place.

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Hamáček responded on Twitter on Tuesday morning by saying that the problem will be fixed as soon as possible. A number of MPs have also reacted to the disparity of the measures, who will want to request the rectification of the measures.

“Registered partnership for gays and lesbians - allowed only in an emergency, for example when one of the partners dies. Otherwise prohibited. Why? What makes a registered partnership epidemically more dangerous than a wedding," wrote pirate MP Martin Jiránek on Facebook.

MP for TOP 09 Dominik Feri has already written to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Health to correct the exception and that the exception for weddings also applied to registered partnerships. "There is (perhaps) no objection to that," he wrote on Twitter.

The difference in measures was called by the pirate MP František Kopřiva as exemplary discrimination. "The government should not deny people the opportunity to enter into a registered partnership. It's an undignified order without a shred of empathy," Kopřiva wrote on Facebook.

According to Adéla Horáková, a lawyer in the organization Jsme fér, this is not the first time that obvious and unjustified discrimination against registered partners appears in government resolutions. "As long as there are two categories of civil partnership and marriage, this will happen," she wrote on Twitter.