I don't know what else needs to be done

– This is a marriage-like act, we have a slightly different philosophy – said Urszula Pasławska, a PSL MP, considered a representative of the liberal wing of the party. – I don't know anything about civil partnerships, I am married, in accordance with the Polish constitution, but if Mrs. Kotula wants to replace marriage with a civil partnership and introduce marital equality with the introductory act, she should first change the constitution – commented PSL MP Marek Sawicki, considered a representative conservative wing.

The People's Party's project on the status of the next of kin is intended to be a compromise that will be supported by the entire ruling coalition. – In order to distinguish marriage from a relationship that is so far informal, civil law, we need to find a formula that will allow for the distinction – said Urszula Pasławska.

According to PSL, the government's draft law on civil partnerships equates civil partnerships with marriages.

– If I could get married and I'm not getting married, I just want to be in a partnership, it means that for me it is not clear and equivalent. I am not putting an equal sign here – says Ewa Szymanowska, MP from Poland 2050, who has been in an informal relationship for 25 years. He also criticizes the assumptions of the PSL parliamentary project, which, for example, will not address the issue of adoption or adoption of children at all, even within the union.

– After all, it is a simple activity, picking up a child from school, writing an excuse, taking the child to the doctor, being able to decide about such everyday matters. This is the basis that should be introduced – says Ewa Szymanowska, MP from Poland 2050.

Urszula Pasławska, who is responsible for the PSL project on the status of a close person, does not hide her liberal views and would vote for the government project herself, but she is in a clear minority among conservative PSL MPs. This was best demonstrated by the vote on the bill decriminalizing abortion, which out of 31 voting PSL MPs was supported by only four MPs.

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– This act, which will be processed, and our act, will create very good provisions that we will implement and it will not be an analogy to decriminalization itself, which only ended with an act that was not passed – said Urszula Pasławska.

PSL MP Agnieszka Kłopotek, who voted for the bill decriminalizing abortion, also supports the law on civil partnerships.

– I don't really understand why we keep trying to deprive these people of the right to enter into a civil partnership at the registry office, so that they can enjoy it. They feel and experience just like we do. These are people just like us. Why should we deprive them of this minimal right to happiness and to be the same people as us? – Agnieszka Kłopotek asked rhetorically in an interview for Wirtualna Polska.

Most People's Party members believe that their conservative demands were not implemented in the bill and that they were forced to create their own bill.

– If the talks were conducted properly, there would be no such misunderstandings and there would be no need for the Polish People's Party to submit its own bill on the status of the next of kin – commented Urszula Nowogórska, an MP from the Polish People's Party.

– I don't know what else needs to be done and what needs to be done more to make some of our partners satisfied – said Tomasz Trela, an MP from the Left.

There is no party discipline in ideological voting in the Polish People's Party club. When voting on the Act on civil partnerships, each MP will vote according to his or her own conscience.