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According to their data, almost half of the Lithuanians surveyed would support legalizing the registration of couples of people of different genders and just over a tenth would support same-sex couples.
Proposals to allow notaries to register a gender association were supported by 46% and not 30%. respondents, the results of the survey were reported by the Chamber of Notaries on Sunday.
41% supported the possibility of a notary registering a marriage of people of different sexes, 33% opposed. surveyed.
According to Vilmorus sociologists, other statements in the survey were negative: 14% supported the possibility of registering same-sex couples, 67% did not. surveyed. The proposal to register same-sex marriage was supported by 9% and not by 77%. surveyed.
The Chamber of Notaries announces that questions about attitudes towards legalizing same-sex couples and marriage have been included in surveys every year since 2015. The minimum support for gay couples is 10%. – was observed in 2015, the highest – 15 percent. – in 2020.
The highest support for same-sex marriage was felt in 2020 (11 percent, the lowest) in 2016, when it was supported by 7 percent. surveyed.
The survey also showed that Lithuanians support the idea that notaries can apply for divorce if the divorced spouses have no minor children and do not dispute the property. 67% would support such a proposal. respondents, as in 2015, when it was first asked about this opportunity.
From 11 to 21 May, a representative survey commissioned by the Lithuanian Chamber of Notaries was conducted, interviewing 1,004 people aged eighteen years or older living in 30 cities and 35 villages in the country.
In May, the Seimas rejected a bill to legalize gender-neutral associations, but returned it to the initiators for improvement in another vote.
The draft law on couples proposed to legalize male-female partnerships and same-sex couples. The project proposed to define the association as an officially registered fact of coexistence of two people in order to create, develop and protect the relationship between the partners.
In Lithuania, the union is not legalized for men and women or same-sex couples. Several previous attempts by liberal politicians to legalize civil association in the country have not reached the stage of adoption in the Seimas.
