Parliament voted in July an amendment to the Civil Code to end the internuptial period.

The matter was under consideration by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, following initiatives by three political parties - PS, BE and PAN - which withdrew the separate proposals presented individually, in favour of a common text (for replacement) approved in the specialty and submitted to a final global vote.

According to a note from PAN, currently, after a divorce, there can be no new marriage immediately, men must wait 180 days and women 300 days to remarry, a rule that has existed in the Civil Code since 1966 and in which "moral considerations on gender roles" make no sense today.

The requirement of this internuptial period is based, according to the understanding of jurists, on the social requirement to have a minimum of decorum, and on the need to avoid conflicts of paternity in respect of children born in the second marriage.

The law published today comes into force on 1 October.