The text, adopted Tuesday, had been tabled in 2017 at the initiative of the former Socialist President Michelle Bachelet. The measure has the support of the Conservative President Sebastian Piñera, who must now promulgate the law.
Le Monde with AFP
The Chilean Parliament, on Tuesday, December 7, in favor of the marriage between the same sex, validating a bill filed in 2017. After its approval on Tuesday in the Senate after numerous postponements of the vote, The Chamber of Deputies immediately pronounced 82 votes for, against and two abstentions.
The measure has the support of the Conservative President Sebastian Piñera, who must now promulgate the law. The latter will also allow all married couples to adopt children.
“I am extremely moved. I have a little trouble keeping my calm. It’s a race of several kilometers,” said Isabel Amor, Director of Fundacion Iguales (who defends the rights of people LGBT) , who attended the vote in the stands of Parliament.
A project constantly fought
“With the approval of the marriage for all, Chile has taken a historical and decisive step for the advancement and consolidation of human rights of same-sex couples and homoparental families, who all have, without Distinction, been discriminated against and violated since the origins of our country “, written in a statement the Movement of Homosexual Integration and Liberation (Movilh), which has been defending the authorization of same-sex marriage for several years in the country.
A few minutes before the express vote in the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate had approved the initiative by 21 votes for, eight against and three abstentions.
The text had been tabled before Parliament in 2017 on the initiative of the former Socialist President Michelle Bachelet, during his second term (2014-2018).
The project was constantly fought by the most conservative block of the Chilean right to power, but nevertheless obtained a majority of “yes” at each stage of the process in a parliament dominated by the opposition.
If the marriage for all is allowed through thirty countries around the world, Chile joins Latin America Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and 14 32 Mexican states.