Parliament conclusively adopted the amendments to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence

At an extraordinary sitting on August 7, the Bulgarianv Parliament adopted at the first and second reading the amendments to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence. With these amendments, victims of violence in an intimate relationship, not just in marriage, are also given the possibility of protection.

As expected, the definition of an intimate relationship sparked a heated debate in the plenary. Today it was reformulated. The Bulgarian Socialist Party reacted to the formulation of intimate relationship and said those who tabled the amendments are trying to push through the "back door" legalisation of gay couples.

In order to refute them, at the end of the vote, the MPs agreed to include in the definition that those individuals who are in an intimate relationship are a man and a woman.