Pages

Total Pageviews

Friday, May 15, 2015

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel marries gay partner, first European Union leader to do so

The prime minister of Luxembourg has married his partner, a year after the tiny Roman Catholic nation approved a law allowing same-sex marriage.
Bettel, a 42-year-old lawyer, heads the free-market DP liberals, who entered a coalition government with the Socialists and the Greens to end 34 years of Christian Democrat reign in Luxembourg. (Photo: AP)

Xavier Bettel did so five years after Iceland’s prime minister married her partner in the first same-sex wedding of a ruling government leader in Europe.
“I wish for everybody to be as happy as I am, thank you to the Luxembourg people and to everyone, I do not make any distinctions, thank you,” Bettel told a crowd of well wishers outside the capital’s city hall on Friday May 15,2015

Xavier Bettel, a 42-year-old lawyer, heads the free-market DP liberals, who entered a coalition government with the Socialists and the Greens to end 34 years of Christian Democrat reign in Luxembourg

No comments:

Post a Comment