The Minister of Equality, Katarzyna Kotula, announced that a decision on the draft law on civil partnerships, whether it will be a government or parliamentary bill, will be made within the next week or two. Kotula emphasized that she would continue to convince PSL MPs to support this initiative.
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Position of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, as well as president of the Polish People’s Party, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, expressed his position on the project. The president of PSL declared that he would not support the status of marriage for homosexual relationships, adoption of children and adoption. However, he stressed that this was his personal opinion and that there were issues of inheritance and access to medical information by people entering into a civil partnership to consider.
Katarzyna Kotula’s answer
At these words Harvest she replied that the Act on partnerships it is not only the Act on dignity and human rights, but also on security, for which the head of the Ministry of National Defense is responsible. She emphasized that rainbow families also have the right to it.
The issue of inheritance and access to medical information
Kotula drew attention to a situation in which two women live together, raise a child, and one of them is the biological mother. According to her, second womanwho is close to this child and often participates financially in his upbringing, should have the right to decide regarding this, on what classes this child can attendand to access to medical information.
An attempt to convince PSL to support the project
Kotula added that recently Left tried to convince the coalition partner PSL to support this project. She expressed hope that MPs, especially from PSL, would show common sense, because inside Third Way Is Poland 2050who agrees to this one Project.
Ready to submit your project
The Minister for Equality noted that she was ready to submit the project both in the government and parliamentary formula. She emphasized that she had completed the task assigned to her by the Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
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Kwestia deadline
Kotula said that she is still ready for a conversation and will consistently try to convince her colleagues. However, she emphasized that she had to give herself a deadline that she estimated at a week or two following which he will make a decision.
Consequences of not supporting the government project
According to Kotula, it will be a mistake if the government does not come up with a project on this matter. He predicts that this will probably influence the view on other projects presented by Third Way ministers, including PSL ministers. She expressed her belief that Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz cannot imagine that the decision not to support the government project will remain unanswered.
As Kotula previously reported, the starting point for work on the act were projects created in recent years. They submitted their proposed regulations to the Sejm in 2018. Modern, and two years later the Left. They included, among others: provisions on: the right to provide the partner with information regarding the health condition, joint tax settlement, first-line inheritance, survivor’s pension and care allowance in the case of caring for the partner, and law to adopt the partner’s child.
