Ireland voted no to politically correct constitution

Published 10 March 2024 at 08.21

Foreign. Ireland's government has suffered a stinging defeat after trying to pass a new constitution in a referendum, which would, among other things, redefine the meaning of the word “family” to include LGBTQP families.

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The current constitution contains a series of non-trendy wordings that deal with the centrality of a woman's “life at home” and about mothers' “duties at home” and so on.

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The government intended to replace them with an article that recognizes the meaning of “family­members” in general, without defining them by gender.

However, to change the constitution a referendum is required, and one such owned room on Friday. When the results were counted on Saturday evening, it was clear that an overwhelming majority of voters voted no to the government's proposal, reports Sky News.

Thus the old constitution will remain.

The Irish government, which campaigned to remove the “sexist wording” from the constitution, is now forced to admit a humiliating defeat.

Even IRA-affiliated Sinn Féin, which is leading the polls ahead of the upcoming general election in Ireland, supported the government's line on the issue but was thus defeated in the referendum.