(ANSA-AFP) - BRATISLAVA, 28 GEN - Slovakia's government on Tuesday published a proposal for a constitutional change curbing the rights of homosexual couples and tightening the rules for gender change in the EU member country.
The proposal published on the government website also questions the superiority of EU law over national law.
Nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico,
who is often at odds with the 27-nation bloc, said Slovakia
should "build a constitutional barrier against progressivism".
He added the proposed change was motivated by "traditions and
the cultural and spiritual legacy of our ancestors". "The Slovak
Republic recognises only two sexes -- male and female," reads
the proposal. "Sex can only be changed for serious reasons.
Details will be set out in a law," it adds. Fico said he drew
inspiration from US President Donald Trump, who said last week
his government would only recognise two biological sexes. The
proposal also orders schools to "only teach that which is in
line with the constitution". It restricts child adoptions to
married couples, the spouses of a deceased parent or,
exceptionally, single people, ruling out adoptions by
homosexuals. The government also wants Slovak law to have
priority over EU law when it comes to values, ethics and
culture. (ANSA-AFP).
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