Luxembourg’s gay Prime Minister is reportedly set to tie the knot next week… but not to his gay Deputy Prime Minister.
The small European country – which has a population of just 550,000 – is the only one in the world that has both a gay PM, Xavier Bettel, and an openly gay Deputy PM, Etienne Schneider.
Luxembourg passed equal marriage by a landslide vote of 56-4 in June last year, and the law came into effect in January with remarkably little attention.
According to AFP , Mr Bettel will this month take advantage of his country’s new law himself – by tying the knot with partner Gauthier Destenay on Friday.
Details of the wedding are being kept strictly under wraps, but a number of other prominent European politicians are reportedly set to attend.
It is unlikely that David Cameron, who is yet to attend a same-sex wedding, will be at the ceremony, but PinkNews has contacted a spokesperson for comment.
The pair have frequently been seen together – and bizarrely Mr Cameron was recently photographed tickling his Luxembourg counterpart.
Here’s a pic of D-Cam tickling Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel. Tyrant. pic.twitter.com/5V8nrAsZ6n — Daniel Green (@DanGreen1986) May 8, 2015
A notoriously homophobic Greek MP previously launched a tirade at Mr Bettel , branding him and his partner “faggot mates” after news of their engagement broke.
Ever the diplomat, Mr Bettel replied: “Hello, I heard you want to tell me something, but I don’t speak Greek. Sorry.”
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