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Mexico's PAN to Conduct Poll on Gay Marriages
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April 08, 2010
Mexico City - The National Action Party (PAN) has entered the ring in the dispute that currently exists between the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Catholic hierarchy, announcing that it will carry out a citizen consultation and two surveys in order find out society's opinion on the issue of the recent approval of gay marriages and the provision that permits the adoption of children by gay couples.
At a press conference, the national PAN leader, Cesar Nava and the PAN leader in the capital, Mariana Gomez del Capo, announced their decision to carry out the poll since the PRD and the Mexico City Mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, did not want to ask the opinion of the people on the subject and approved the law that PAN sees as "unconstitutional".
Nava Vazquez said that faced with the "albazo" or surprise attack of same-sex marriage, such a delicate and sensitive issue for Mexico City residents, that the PRD and Ebrard approved with a "majority," the PAN will ask the people their opinion. Along with the citizen consultation, PAN will carry out two surveys with two polling agencies in order to be informed of Mexican's position on the subject.
Immediately afterwards, he said, the PAN will continue its efforts to overturn and render invalid this law through the Nation's Supreme Court of Justice by taking legal action against the "unconstitutionality" of the law.
The "Panista" said that because of the "majority" and the method that the PRD used in the capital's Legislative Assembly, by not consulting the people, "they turned their back on the citizens."
He said that they will defend the institution of marriage with legal and political arguments, without turning to religious or moral arguments.
"We will do what the Mayor did not want to do, we will do what the PRD and a part of the PRI did not want to do, consult the citizens for their opinion, their position on these reforms, and we will do it from next weekend in two distinct ways: firstly, to carry out a citizen consultation that will commence this Sunday and finish the following Sunday, Jan. 24 that will seek to gather the opinion of residents of the capital city," announced Nava Vazquez.
"Secondly, we will commission two surveys to be undertaken by two internationally prestigious companies with verifiable quality standards and subject to any auditing that is wanted." |
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