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sry a friend sent this to me so idk where it comes from
DENMARK?! LUXEMBURG?!
France showed tf up. Thank you France. Their signatures make up about 50% of the total number of signatures (>600k came from France and in total it’s approx 1.2M signatures).
Thanks also to all the countries with at least 100%, because more than 6 countries were needed.
Thanks for every single one that signed - no matter the statistics. Every signature counts.
Important to note; The French have a very strong culture of secularism, which turns out helps a lot with fighting against religious BS.
I’m torn between feeling proud my country did some good for once and annoyed that it means my signature is basically pretty useless compared to others.
Giving your signature is never useless on things like this, as it is direct increase in the total support. The more the threshold is surpassed the harder it is to dismiss a moment as and activist fringe and not mainstream opinion.
Pole here: I honestly though it was outlawed in Poland 5 years ago, but despite what Google AI lies, it wasn’t. Catholic Church intervened and the ban never was voted for.
France now gets one week of free pass from banter as a reward for their hard work
Fuck yeah France, I’m impressed.
As a Croat, I’m baffled we’ve reached it.
Portugal once again is confirmed as an honorary eastern European country
I was looking for this comment
Well, you found it :P
I’ve visited a eastern country a few times. I’ve basically felt like home there as if I was in Portugal. We are the same.
As a Polish citizen, who spent several months in Portugal: yeah, it felt like home. Well, maybe except the temperature.
This has more to do with reach than with public opinion, no offense but I do not find this valuable information. I mean I’m glad with every vote, but this doesn’t really say anything meaningful.
Well it’s both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.
As an Italian in Denmark: WTF?
A lot of this is campaigning/spreading the word. Like France is fairly progressive but not 10 times as much as Sweden. Denmark and Austria are probably just late to the party. Not sure about Portugal though. They’re Eastern European at heart.
Slovenia is based.
I was expecting better from Denmark, though.
Croatia had some 70% just in final day, but Denmark stayed at some 80ish the entire time. I’ve only heard about this petition from lemmy, maybe a couple of posts there and here made it work in some cases but not in others
The initiative was coming from a French organization. That obviously makes it easier to contact French LGBTQ+ groups to promote that initiative. However it is often difficult to contact groups in other countries, as those contacts are missing. Hence some countries might not have signed as much as they could have.
Dane here. Haven’t seen or heard about the petition.
I don’t think conversion therapy is a thing in Denmark, so most people are probably like “eh, what’s that old fashioned thing - we are already past that.”
Could be wrong though.
Conversion therapy is potentially a thing wherever the Catholic Church is allowed to operate, among other groups (for example here in CPH there is a strong Scientology presence).
As an Italian living in Copenhagen, I am genuinely surprised people here are sometimes so oblivious to issues in society.
Same thing with stuff like Salmonella cases, with multiple people telling me “Salmonella is not a thing in Denmark” 🤦
Thank you for enlightening me!
I guess Danes can be a little “stuck in their own heads”.
I’m wondering about coverage. How much was it talked about in the public? How much was it covered by media? What’s your experience from France and other countries that reached the threshold and from countries that remained far from it? People can’t sign something they never heard about.
I don’t believe ECIs ever get a lot of media coverage, sadly.
Most people don’t even know they can start/participate in ECIs and have their opinion taken into account at a european level. Best we can do is share the platform and make sure as many people as possible know about it.
In Croatia it wasn’t covered except for maybe some niche media and Grof Darkula. Still, I’m surprised we made it, homophobia is rampant here.
I saw it on r/croatia, tbh.
I don’t use Reddit, but I’m glad to hear they covered this. Makes me kinda hopeful. :)
“It’s about covrage”, “It’s about reach, not public opinion”, etc…
It’s not far off from the data on public opinion, with some outliers.
Yo France!
France accounts for some half of signatures, and also that’s where this campaign is coordinated from
France 💪💪💪
