Equal marriage in Chile will be voted on again in Congress due to discrepancies

The project that would historically allow equal marriage in Chile It will have to sort out the two houses of Congress again due to discrepancies from the most conservative parliamentarians that forced the initiative to be reviewed this Monday in a special commission.

The process was extended last Tuesday, when it was supposed to be the final vote, but the parliamentary process was diverted to a commission made up of senators and deputies who refined some details of its content.

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The Congress of Chile it will finally decide in the coming days whether or not to approve the initiative, which seeks to allow same-sex unions to be called marriage and also enables adoption and filiation.

Equal marriage is one of the greatest wishes of the LGTB community in the country, where for now homosexuals can unite under the figure of the Civil Union Agreement (AUC), which does not recognize filiative rights.

If approved, Chile it would become the eighth country in Latin America to legalize it after Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica and several states of Mexico.

The decision was celebrated by the sexual diversity groups, which have been urging parliamentary proceedings for weeks, although they denounced that during the discussion the repeal of various “transphobic” articles was left behind.

“Despite this, in general terms we can say that we are satisfied because the text recognizes marriage and all kinds of filiation and that is very good news. We look forward to your speedy processing “, said Isabel Amor, director of Fundación Iguales, one of the most active platforms in the country.

The bill was introduced in 2017 thanks to the impulse of former socialist president Michelle Bachelet (2014-2018) and was stalled for almost four years.

Last July, in a surprising twist, the current president, the right-wing Sebastián Piñera, said that “the time had come” to approve the initiative and instructed Parliament to urgently debate it.

In recent months, the rule has been reviewed favorably in both chambers, although now it will have to be voted on both in the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate.

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