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30% answered affirmatively to the question “Do you support the Public Limited Companies Law, which would allow legalizing same-sex relationships and couples?” respondents, negatively – 65%, another 5%. He said without having an opinion.
Younger people are more likely to support the law – 52% back it. 18-24 years old and 48% People between 25 and 34 years old. In the older age groups, the number of supporters is decreasing, for example, 29% answered yes. People from 35 to 44 years old.
Norstat conducted a survey commissioned by LRT from April 19 to May 4 and surveyed 1,100 respondents. The study was conducted by combining telephone surveys with online surveys. 81 percent of respondents were interviewed by phone, 19 percent. – Internet.
According to the LRT, the distribution of respondents is proportional to the distribution of the Lithuanian population by sex, age and place of residence.
Liberal politicians in the ruling coalition propose to legitimize a gender-neutral association. These projects have already been prepared in the Seimas, but have not yet been officially registered in the Legal Acts Database.
According to the project, a company would be defined as “the fact of the coexistence of two people (partners), registered in accordance with the procedure established by legal acts, with the aim of creating and / and developing, protecting the relationship between partners ”.
As the initiators point out, the law would establish a registered gender-neutral association model, and the legal consequences of the association would arise from the moment the association was registered.
In Lithuania, the union is not legalized for men and women or same-sex couples. Several previous attempts by liberal politicians to legalize civil union in the country have not reached the stage of adoption in the Seimas.
