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echoed plans to achieve legal recognition of same-sex relationships through the courts; "We tried this way of changing the Family Code before, but we have seen that there is no political will to move it forward, and since we see that there is no political will, we are thinking of using the path of
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two days prior, saying, "Our request for a declaration of marriage symbolizes the first link in a long and difficult, but above all just, struggle. We are determined to follow the legal path and respect the procedures and institutions of our country, challenging the discriminatory content of the
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strategic litigation. This is a path where a couple or several couples belonging to the community follow the legal path and go through all the judicial stages in
Albania â and then take the case to Strasbourg, as many other countries have done before.", said Karaj.
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would push for a bill to recognise marriages between partners of the same sex. He said that the bill had already been introduced to the
Parliament of Albania. On 5 February 2010, the Albanian Parliament passed an anti-discrimination law banning
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