PM pressing on with same-sex marriage

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has decided to open the debate on same-sex marriage and parenthood, as is expected to address the issue extensively in a television interview on Wednesday.

He is expected to support "marriage equality" and to announce an anticipated bill giving same-sex couples the right to be joined in a civil marriage instead of just a partnership agreement. It is also speculated that the bill on the matter will not take long to come up for a vote.

The bill will likely also provide the right to adoption, with full and equal rights for children raised by a same-sex couple.

At the same time, however, the government does not intend to legislate the right for medically assisted reproduction through a surrogate mother. 

Mitsotakis had announced from the beginning of his term that the bill would come within four years, but the question is...