Luxembourg is tipped to become the first country in the world to
have both an openly gay prime minister and deputy prime
minister.
Xavier Bettel, the mayor of Luxembourg City, has officially been appointed prime minister designate by Grand Duke Henri,The country’s head of state. This
means he’s in charge of forming a coalition government with the Greens and Socialists and if all goes to plan he’ll become prime minister within
the next few weeks.

The 40-year-old is due to become the European
Union’s second openly gay PM after Belgium’s Elio
Di Rupo. Mr Bettel, of Luxembourg’s Democratic
Party, told Buzzfeed: “My vice-prime minister is
gay as well.”
He was referring to Etienne Schneider, the openly
gay leader of Luxembourg Socialist Workers’
Party (LSDP). Negotiations are already taking
place between Mr Bettel and Mr Schneider, along
with the Greens, in forming a new coalition
government.

Mr Bettel also wants Luxembourg to legalise equal
marriage in 2014. “Gay weddings with be done
forthly. At the moment in Luxembourg, we have to
go through the situation of weddings, religion and
divorce laws. But I don’t think it’ll be in the next
five years – it’ll be next year.”

Mr Bettel said attitudes in Luxembourg had
shifted substantially in recent years – to a point
where sexual orientation was no longer an issue
for most of the country’s voters.
“You have to prove that you do not have to fulfil
cliches and be how you think you should be.
People don’t care what you do at the end of the
day.”

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