One of just a few countries in Latin America to do so, Chile became the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
Members of different social movements celebrate the passage of a bill that legalized same-sex marriage. Dedvi MISSENE is pictured.
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President Piera is expected to sign it before he leaves office.
Same-sex couples will be able to adopt children.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, Tuesday's vote makes Chile the 31st country in the world to legalized gay marriage.
In Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, and several Mexican states have done it.
I am moved. Isabel said it was difficult to keep her composure. It has been a long race. Two years after the country voted to recognize civil unions for same-sex couples, the bill had been stuck in Congress.
The key background.
Piera stunned the conservative political establishment in June when he said he would push the bill through Congress. It comes a year after the country voted to get rid of its dictatorship-era constitution and write a new one. After neither of the two leading candidates won a majority of votes in the first round of the presidential election in November, a second round will be held later this month. Right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast is opposed to same-sex marriage. Gabriel Boric was a lawmaker and voted in favor of it.
The legislation for same-sex marriage was overwhelmingly approved by parliament.
Agence France-Presse reported that the congress of chile approved a same-sex marriage bill.
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Chile.
Same-Sex marriage is legal in chile.
