Polish president takes a stand on gender
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
06.10.2015 14:40
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How gender issues continue to be powerfully divisive in Poland
The Polish president’s veto on a bill regulating legal gender recognition has once again highlighted differences between political parties in Poland, ahead of the 25 October parliamentary elections.
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President Andrzej Duda, formerly a member of the conservative opposition party Law and Justice has declined to sign the Gender Accordance Act that was passed in the country's lower and upper houses of parliament this summer.
“Those are individual cases, and we have to treat them with empathy,” said deputy head of the opposition Law and Justice party Mariusz Kamiński.
“But paving the way for such liberalization is wrong and improper,” he claimed.
“It is not an ideological bill, it is a well-written bill,” argued MP Anna Grodzka, who together with the Trans-Fuzja foundation, drafted the legislation.
Agnieszka Łaszczuk reports.