Tzipi Livni, set to be prime minister in rotation with Herzog if Labor wins, visited a gay club on Friday and promised same-sex marriage.

Tzipi Livni made the pledge at a weekly gay party called Dreck in Tel Aviv on Saturday night (21 February).

The Hatnuah party leader will become one of two rotating prime ministers if her coalition with Labor wins.

‘Good evening Dreck. There’s a chance that on March 20 we’ll come to celebrate the end of the period of darkness, racism and discrimination and we’ll start a period of light, love and equality,’ she said.

‘Everyone will have respect and everyone can love and everyone can get married. And that’s the state that we want for all of us.’

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As early as November 2013 Livni started legislature pushing for same-sex marriage in a Civil Marriage bill that never passed in the outgoing coalition.

Earlier this month Livni spoke at a convention for gays and lesbians in Tel Aviv and said the “veto on matters of religion and state that was given to the Jewish Home” prevented passage of the same-sex marriage law, promising “we will promote (the law) in the next government.”

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