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LGBT: Secretary of State denounces Polish “political pressure”

It wasn’t a physical ban, it was political pressure. Asked about France Inter, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, accused the Polish authorities of pressure on the sidelines of an official visit to the country earlier this week. “I had indicated to the Polish authorities that I would go to a Polish town called Krasnik”, one of the “free of LGBT ideology” zones decreed in the country.

“They did not want me to go,” he said, adding that he had been warned that “if I went there would be no official interview during this visit”. “I think it is very serious, but I do not want to argue with a government, which is very serious, it is the basic situation, not my personal case”, he continued. Clément Beaune, who made his “coming out” in December, had at the time announced that he would go to one of the zones “free of LGBT ideology”, which he described as “absolute scandal”.

“I’m sure it will be doomed at some point”

With the tacit support of the government, several municipalities declared themselves free from “LGBT ideology” in protest against the support for the rights of LGBT people of the mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski, one of the leaders of the opposition. “I will go, but I have made the decision to stay in Poland, to maintain this visit on this symbolic day of March 8, International Women’s Day, because there are also attacks on women in Poland. women’s rights ”, underlined the French Secretary of State. “I am sure that this will be condemned at some point, that there will be consequences”, he concluded, recalling that the European Parliament must vote this Thursday a symbolic resolution proclaiming the European Union “zone of freedom For LGBT people.

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