The no camp figuratively stood by their anti-divorce billboards yesterday, insisting that the controversial Divorce Without Reason slogan was not a wrong interpretation of no-fault divorce, as was being claimed by the yes camp.

The only requirement for a divorce in the proposed legislation was four years’ separation without a just reason, said anti-divorce movement spokesman Arthur Galea Salamone.

“So I can wake up any day and leave my wife for no reason,” he said, pointing out that contracts were not normally broken in this way.

The yes camp maintained that the anti-divorce movement was scaremongering by using false facts.

“We are not voting for a marriage which expires or a no-reason divorce, we are voting for a no-fault divorce,” said Deborah Schembri, chairman of the pro-divorce movement.

Speaking in front of an anti-divorce billboard in Żebbuġ, she pointed out that the responsibility for fault would have already been ascertained in separation proceedings and this would not need to be repeated for divorce proceedings.

There was a difference between no-fault divorce and no-reason divorce, she said.

The slogans and billboards used by the no campaign were unrelated to the core argument. She gave the poster of a family with the words “We Cherish That Which Binds Us” as an example.

“These things are not related to divorce. We agree that we cherish family bonds but they are forgetting people who are separated,” she said.