Tunisia’s first same-sex marriage denounced as an “administrative error”

Tunisian Minister of Local Affairs Lofti Zitoun
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A government minister in Tunisia said that a same-sex marriage that was noted on a Tunisian man’s birth certificate was a mistake, saying that the marriage would not be recognized in the country.

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The LGBTQ organization Shams announced on Facebook last Friday that a French man and a Tunisian man who married in France had their marriage noted on the Tunisian man’s birth certificate, as is the custom for heterosexual marriages in the country.

Related: Russia just had its first same-sex marriage. Now the state wants to shut it down.

But on Tuesday, Tunisia’s Minister of Local Affairs Lofti Zitoun said in parliament that the marriage has not been recognized in the country.

“No marriage contract between homosexuals has been recognized in Tunisia,” he said, L’Economiste Maghrébin reports.

“That’s because it’s against the provisions of the Tunisian Code of Civil Procedure. The contract is considered null and void. It can be canceled by a judicial procedure.”

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