The Constitutional Law Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will discuss marriage for gay and lesbian couples today. Six years after the submission

The deliberations of the House Constitutional Law Committee are the next stage in the possible approval or rejection of a new form of Act No.89/2012 Coll., which would allow same-sex couples to enter into a marriage in the Czech Republic.

At the same time, however, the committee will also discuss a counter-proposal to the constitutional ban on marriage for all couples, which was submitted by a group of MPs, including Marek Výborný (KDU-ČSL), Marek Benda (ODS), Vlastimil Válek (TOP 09), Aleš Juchelka (non-party member for ANO) and Aleš Dufek (KDU-ČSL). They want to change the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms so that it already states that marriage is exclusively a union between a man and a woman.

The committee is discussing the proposal without reading

In June, both proposals passed their first reading in the Chamber of Deputies and were scheduled to be discussed in committees. However, the Constitutional Law Committee will also discuss a third proposal, an amendment that would only partially extend the rights contained in registered partnerships, rather than introducing equal marriage. While this amendment would mean a slight improvement in the legal status of gay and lesbian couples in the Czech Republic, it would also entrench the division of citizens into two categories. - Those who can get married and the others. The proposal is being put forward by a group of MPs around Jiří Navrátil (KDU-ČSL) and Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL).

As Adéla Horáková, a lawyer for the Jsme fér movement, pointed out, it is unusual for the lower house to "bring up" a proposal at a committee meeting that has not even passed its first reading, as is the case here. For this reason, MP Jakub Michálek (Pirates) also proposed that the discussion on the regulation of registered partnerships be removed from today's meeting of the Constitutional Law Committee. However, his motion did not pass.

"[Jakub Michálek] proposed that the Navrátil amendment be removed from the agenda of the committee meeting. Because it has not even passed its first reading yet, and it has never happened at the Constitutional Court this term that any such proposal has been 'pulled' from the committee's agenda. [Michálek's] proposal did not pass," Horáková wrote on her X.