Hollande insists gay law is here to stay
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FRENCH President Francois Hollande insisted yesterday that a gay marriage law was increasingly being accepted, after his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy called for the highly divisive law to be scrapped.
Waging a closely watched political comeback, Sarkozy made his strongest comments yet against the law during a debate with two rival candidates vying to lead the center-right UMP into the 2017 presidential election.
The same-sex marriage law, which came into force in May 2013 and also legalizes gay adoption, “should be rewritten from the ground up,” Sarkozy told audience members on Saturday.
His words were met with jeers and chants of “Repeal! Repeal!,” prompting the former president to add: “If you prefer that I say repeal the law ... it comes down to the same thing.”
He added: “There is no point in opposing surrogacy if we don’t repeal the Taubira law,” referring to Justice Minister Christine Taubira who passionately backed the same-sex marriage act.
Hollande said the gay marriage law — the flagship reform of his deeply unpopular presidency — was being “applied without friction.”
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