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EU states signing declaration committing to legal equality, protection, national strategies and work for social acceptance of LGBTIQ people (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If marriage was the issue, they still could have signed because the declaration explicitly says "legal status for same-sex couple" instead of "marriage". My best guess is that these multiple countries dont want to commit to fighting against the "anti lgbtq movement".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My best guess is that these multiple countries dont want to commit to fighting against the "anti lgbtq movement".

For Romania, this is exactly the issue. The political situation is pretty crazy, we have a political party called AUR which is the worst reactionary tinfoil hat collection of crazies, very reminiscent of extreme US republicans. They are currently a fringe party, but growing. The mainstream socially conservative party (PSD, a socialist party... long story) don't want to lose voters to the crazies, so they have to portray themselves as anti-LGBT. An alliance of socially progressive and economically liberal parties (PNL, USR+) is currently in power, and want to concentrate on how amazing the economy is and freeze social issues because they're too divisive to win elections on.

TL;DR: Romanian politics are an absolute mess.