Successive voivodeship assemblies are withdrawing from anti-LGBT resolutions
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On Monday (September 27), councilors of three voivodeships – Małopolskie, Podkarpackie, and Lubelskie – took up the so-called anti-LGBT resolutions. In these regions, controversial positions – the maintenance of which could result in the loss of EU funds – have been lifted.
The European Commission announced that if local governments did not withdraw from – as EU officials emphasized – discriminatory legal regulations, payments of EU subsidies will be suspended.
Małopolskie, Podkarpackie, and Lubelskie are among the five regions that have been targeted by Brussels for several months. The case also concerns the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (the local sejmik repealed the resolution and adopted a new one last week) and the Łódź Voivodeship. In all five regions, the power in the regional councils is exercised by the United Right.
Similar anti-LGBT resolutions were passed in 2019 by several dozen local governments of various levels, mainly in the south and southeast of Poland.
