Dr Bezzina filed the protest yesterday against Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Opposition leader Alfred Sant and President Edward Fenech Adami. He said that because of particular beliefs, people are being denied human rights exercised all over the world. “If a couple gets married by law, then a law should exists for them to be released from it too,” said the protest. John Zammit and Caroline Milovanovic, who signed the protest together with Dr Bezzina, along with other people in Malta, believe that once a marriage has failed and the love has disappeared, the bond between the couple will have disintegrated to a point beyond reconciliation.

The protest said it is discriminatory that there are no legal procedures for Maltese people and permanent residents to divorce. “Divorce is an integral part of the formation of the family,” the protest said, and if a person choose to legally bind himself to another, he should have the legal option to back out of that agreement.

The lack of divorce ignores the interests of a large sector of the Maltese people, said Dr Bezzina ,demanding that the Marriage Act be amended to introduce divorce.

Those who do not have the means to get a divorce abroad are being discriminated against and Dr Bezzina therefore demands the issue be discussed in parliament. If this is not done in a month’s time, he said, he will file a constitutional case against the government.