According to earlier announcements, Karol Nawrocki vetoed the government's law on the position of the closest individual in the relation and the joint life agreement. The Polish political class must draw a lesson from this almost three-year past for the future: the chapter “talking after elections” about partnerships and civilian rights agreements has come to an end. Serious politicians will have marital equality on their agenda.
The failure of the government bill should be a last reminder for everyone that there is no point in negotiating with people who do not want and do not see the value in them. The start of these negotiations with preliminary concessions, as in the case of truncation of the bill, is more astonishing by its shortsightedness. That way you can only lose.
After 2 decades, respective parliamentary approaches to the Laws on Partnership Unions and another 2 attempts to introduce a law on any form of civil-law contracts, politicians must face the truth: cowardice and conservatism of subsequent governments stopped the legal advancement of LGBT+ people in place. The most right-wing politicians are liable for voting against the bill and presidential veto, but it was the centrists who made the window of political debate not moving towards normality, marriage, families, dignity and security, despite immense changes in public opinion. The Polish political class lies in a intellectual scan.
While Polish society talks about same-sex marriages, and in offices Polish matrimony acts are issued to specified couples, leading pro-European, pro-democratic politicians feel no shame, one more time during their career promising partnerships to yet lower the bar even further. This has to change.
Negotiating with conservatives and desperate defence position quo just don't work, which we see with our own eyes again. The LGBT+ community has been openly demanding equality of matrimony for years, that is, the right to marry and start a household regardless of the sex of the individual you love. erstwhile the next legal change window opens after 2030 and the president does not beat veto records, putting anything on the table another than matrimony equality will mean an immediate red card for the government.
This is all the more crucial due to the existence in Polish reality of same-sex marriages recognized by transcription. any couples have already started fighting to enforce circumstantial legal effects and get legal protection for marriages. Love It is not impossible to support these couples legally, to monitor advancement and to guarantee that they besides be in social awareness. Even if another government withdraws the anticipation of transcription, it will not erase the memories of people who read about them in the press, listened to them on the radio and watched them on TV. In this sense, transcription is simply a step forward that cannot be reversed.
What does the LGBT+ community think about the "Co-location+"
When Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election in June 2025, they blew and so cautiously hoped the LGBT+ community for any favorable legislative change. This 1 event completely changed the importance of the bill that the government has been drafting since the end of 2023, initially within the institutions of the partnerships.
From the applicable Act, which could actually improve something in the situation of LGBT+ people in Poland, it changed into a symbolic bill. Thus, by deciding to further degrade the bill to gain the approval of the most conservative wing of the coalition, the government showed LGBT+ people that even erstwhile there is nothing to lose, it offers them little than outdated partnerships.
The truncating of this law and its presentation at a press conference as a solution for "people in informal relationships", alternatively than LGBT+ communities, was a final humiliation. At the same time, it was selfless humiliation, done in the name of zero profit, due to the fact that the president never intended to sign this bill – says Maja ebony of the Love Association.
We callback this assessment of the bill due to the fact that we see that in its authoritative communication the Left – mostly liable for the task – replaces the terms “the law on the position of the nearest person” and “the law on partnerships”. matrimony equality is the same rights and obligations for couples of the same and different sexes. Partnerships are a partial legal protection granted to same-sex couples in order to avoid being granted matrimony rights. Government law is even little due to the fact that a package of contracts signed by 2 people is not an institution of household law. erstwhile politicians mix these concepts, they do it either out of ignorance or due to the fact that soaping people's eyes is for something.
We take this as a kind of preliminary crisis management, the intent of which is to convince the community that the president vetoed the bill better and more complete than it truly did. The more people remember a veto under the "partnership law" and not under the Civil-Legal Contract Act concluded with a notary – which does not change civilian position and does not connect with the ceremony at the office – the longer-term better for the reputation of the Left. We anticipate a akin approach from the full government.
It is so all the more crucial for the political class to realize how insulting the LGBT+ community is the government's proposal and the propaganda of success cultivated on its canopy. This is simply a lesson that politicians must remember for the future, so that they never repeat it again.
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