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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

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