“The MPs who will abstain or vote against the bill are not voting against the government, it has nothing to do with government cohesion. Two conservative governments brought a similar bill in Europe, one of Ms. Merkel’s, which only 20% of her MPs voted for. It is a social and strongly moral issue”, said Thanos Pleuris in the “Simera” program of SKAI.

“The main thing for me is to develop the arguments, I have decided clearly,” he added.

Referring to the process of informing the parliamentarians by the ruling party last week, Mr. Pleuris said that it is a healthy process with an exchange of arguments.

Regarding the substance of the debate and the context of his disagreement, Mr. Pleuris said that “The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it is not a right protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, they are value, ideological arguments that bring the conversation to the real level. I will not give them away to extreme voices.”

“It’s a deeply social conversation, I also listen to the other position, I’m not dogmatic, but I believe that these interventions should have stayed in the part of civil law without interfering in family law because we are changing the family,” he added.