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“There are two ways. One is to try to adjust the law itself, and perhaps the most difficult thing is the definition of society, which is already too similar to the concept of family and the definition of family, and therefore raises the question of avoiding the Article 38 of the Constitution, in other ways ”, affirms G. Nausėda in the video of the meeting of the Board of Directors distributed by the Presidency.
According to him, there should be no “cunning in relation to the Constitution.”
“The Constitution must continue to be the document that we unconditionally respect. If we think that some provisions of the Constitution no longer correspond to the realities of our country, then a much fairer way is to try to change the Constitution, but it will not be easy,” he said. the mandatary.
Article 38 of the Constitution establishes that “the family is the foundation of society and the State. The state protects and cares for the family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood. Marriage is contracted by the free consent of the man and the woman. “Meanwhile, a decade ago, the Constitutional Court clarified that” the constitutional concept of family cannot be derived solely from the institute of marriage enshrined in the provisions of paragraph 3 of article 38 of the Constitution ”.
“Or another option is to try to modify, more precisely, to review the Civil Code, ensuring certain rights, of which I have already spoken. Civil relations between people of the same sex must be regulated and this must be achieved. And I think it is possible to achieve a result from both the first and the second, ”said the Lithuanian leader.
On Tuesday, the Seimas did not approve a bill to legalize a gender-neutral association. After the presentation, 63 members of the Seimas voted in favor of the project, there were 58 against and seven abstentions. Disagreement after submission was returned to the initiators for improvement by 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.
The project stated that the relationship was based on a constant “emotional attachment, mutual understanding, responsibility, assistance, respect and / or similar relationships, as well as a voluntary commitment to assume certain rights and responsibilities.”
It was proposed that the Corporations Law come into effect on January 1, 2022.
The project, together with the leader of the Liberal Movement V.Čmilyte-Nielsen, was presented by the President of the Freedom Party Aušrinė Armonaitė, the President of the Lithuanian Christian National-Democratic Union Gabrielius Landsbergis, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, the eldest Pakarklytė, as well as the chairman of the Human Rights Committee, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, representative of the Freedom Party, and Andrius Navickas, a conservative member of this committee.
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.
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