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Petition forces Finland’s parliament to debate reversing gay marriage
A petition in Finland has gathered enough signatures to force parliament to debate reversing the gender-neutral marriage law it passed in November last year.
The petition, started by the Association for Real Marriage, reached the required 50,000 signatures at 6pm on Sunday (19 July), Finland’s national broadcaster Yle reported.
Under the terms of the citizens’ initiative scheme, the petition still had 2 and a half months to collect signatures.
It will now be passed to Finland’s Population Register Center to verify that they are genuine.
President Sauli Niinistö signed the gender-neutral marriage law in February and it is due to come into force in March 2017. However, several other bills need to be passed by the end of the year before it can take effect.
It was the first law in Finland to start as an online petition – and could be first to be scrapped because of a petition too.
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Darren Wee
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