Filing of the Amendment to the Marriage and Family Relations Act

In December 2014, United Left Party filed a new Amendment to the Marriage and Family Relations Act. It anticipated the Amendment of Article 3 of the Act, namely, that the definition of “marriage is a lawful arrangement of life partnership of husband and wife” to “marriage is a lawful arrangement of life partnership of two persons” and thus completely equalized same-sex and heterosexual partnerships. Legebitra monitored and participated in various stages of adopting the Amendment, which was subsequently rejected at the referendum.