Factions within the Nationalist party do not tolerate anti-LGBT rights statutes. It voted in favour of gay marriage in 2017. By 2020 only one member of parliament with the Nationalist party, Edwin Vassallo, is against the protection of LGBT rights but he has said to be against discrimination.However, after talking to the party leader Bernard Grech, he accepted to try and make an effort in changing his views. The party has also recruited a Non-Binary member, Mark Josef Rapa for their pro-LGBT group, FOIPN.