PRAGUE- About a hundred people took part in a march through the historical centre of Prague in support of the introduction of registered partnership of homosexuals and against President Vaclav Klaus's recent vetoing the relevant bill.
The protest was organised by the young social democrats.
Stop to sexual racism, No to presidential veto, Love is not politics and We are not in Poland, read the posters the protesters carried.
"We ask deputies to prefer humanity to politics while deciding on the homosexual partnership bill. This bill would help a minority without harming the majority [population]. That is why we ask deputies to override the president's veto and pass the bill in its original shape," the organisers said in a statement.
The march set off from the Wenceslas Square and reached Prague Castle, the presidential seat.
To overcome Klaus's veto, the bill needs support from the absolute majority, or at least 101 of the houses's members.
The Chamber originally passed the bill late last year by the votes of 86 deputies across the political spectrum. Only the junior ruling Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) were strictly against it.
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