• 29/12/2022
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LGBT political parties often do not address the rights in election programs.Pirates and CSSD promise for all<

LGBT rights are not a significant topic of elections this year either. The Pirates/STAN coalition and the ČSSD promise to introduce same-sex marriage, but other entities do not address the issue in their programs, saying that it is a controversial issue.

The Coalition of Pirates and Elders devotes an entire section to LGBT rights in its program. "Hundreds of thousands of LGBT+ people are unable to get married. This reduces their dignity and equality in society. Along with their children, they also lose legal security. The status of second-category citizens prevents them from living a dignified life and developing their potential for society," the opposition bloc states in its program of promises to introduce same-sex marriage.

At the same time, however, the coalition states that individual MPs will have the opportunity to use the so-called conscientious objection, or to present an alternative solution. This compromise amendment was added to the program mainly at the instigation of the more conservative part of the Elders, led by ex-chairman of STAN Petr Gazdík, who had previously initiated a counter-proposal that would define marriage in the constitution as the union of a man and a woman. However, this is not all that the coalition promises when it comes to LGBT rights. In case of success of the Pirates and Starosts, there should also be an abolition of mandatory sterilization during sex change, which the Czech authorities require despite the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. At the same time, they promise to simplify the choice of names and surnames or want to advocate for the modification of risk factors that limit blood donation, so that the riskiness of behavior is not judged according to the gender of the sexual partners of potential donors. The Pirates and STAN MPs want to resolve all this within a year of the autumn elections.

The non-parliamentary Greens or the small radical Left party also have a similar program in the field of LGBT rights. In the last point of their program, the social democrats also promise to introduce marriage for same-sex couples. They argue primarily in the interests of the child. "For example, children are not entitled to alimony, orphan's pension or automatic inheritance from one parent, in the event of the death of their biological parent they are not sure that their other parent will continue to care for them," we read in the election program of the ČSSD. At the same time, social democrats have long been divided on the issue of same-sex marriage. While Chairman Hamáček himself was a co-sponsor of the proposal that would allow homosexuals to enter into marriage, other ČSSD MPs, on the other hand, came up with the aforementioned counter-proposal for a constitutional ban.

The center-right opposition triple coalition SPOLU (ODS, People's Party and TOP 09) announced in advance when creating its program that it would not agree on the issue, would not modify it in any way in the program, and that its MPs would eventually have a free vote. The right-wing populist SPD movement of Tomio Okamura is going in the opposite direction, promising to enshrine in the constitution the definition of marriage and parenthood as a relationship between a man and a woman. This is also announced by the decidedly right-wing coalition of the Tricolor, Svobodný and Soukromník. "We will actively fight against the legislation of progressive ideologies (genderism, feminism, LGBT and many other "isms") and social engineering," the group declares.