The law on registered same-sex partnerships was approved this evening by the Chamber of Deputies in Prague with a narrow majority of 101 votes out of 177 deputies present.
‘The veto placed by President Vaclav Klaus on February 16 due to strong reservations about the law has thus been overturned. The Czech Republic is now the first post-communist country, and the 13th in Europe, to regulate the coexistence of homosexuals.
The law regulates the beginning and end of registered unions between people of the same sex, grants these people the right to information about the health of their partner, the right to inheritance in the event of death, and obliges partners to support each other financially.
The law allows for the education of children born from previous heterosexual relationships, but does not permit adoption.
