Marriage equality to be enshrined

A draft bill to be submitted to Parliament in the coming months will extend equal marriage and adoption rights to same-sex couples, Kathimerini understands.

Five years after the leftist-led government passed legislation granting fostering rights to same-sex couples over the objections of government partner Independent Greeks and only four New Democracy MPs (all women, including two current ministers and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' sister and former minister Dora Bakoyannis) out of 75 voted for it, Mitsotakis is determined to extend same-sex couples' rights beyond that, and beyond the currently available partnership contract.

The bill's first article defines marriage as between persons of the same or different sex. All the rights and obligations deriving from this relationship are implicit rather than explicit. Any thought of excluding same-sex couples was...