Earlier in November, the Senate had sent it to a committee to clarify the ambiguities in the partially approved bill. Incumbent Chilean President Sebastian Pinera will step down in March. He is also expected to support the bill and sign the new law. Attempts to introduce the first bill in 2017 with the support of then – President Michelle Bachelet ended in a vote.
“I can not believe we are taking this step today,” said Rolando Jimenez, a Member of the Knesset for Kadima. Rolando Jimenez is a member of the LGBT rights group Movilah. Movilah is a group in Chile that has been leading efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Chile for more than a decade.
Chile will elect a new president on December 19. The presidential battle is between progressive Gabriel Boric and hard-line conservative and Catholic, Jose Antonio Cast. Both are people with very different perspectives on the future of the country. Cast is personally opposed to same-sex marriage. However he acknowledged that their numbers were not enough to defeat Congress.
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Civil unions have been allowed in Chile since 2015. However, it did not allow same-sex couples to have all the rights of a married couple, including the right to adopt. With the new law coming into force 90 days after its publication in the official gazette, the door is open for full legal recognition for both parents of same-sex couples.
More than 20 countries worldwide are currently in favor of legal same-sex marriage, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay in Latin America. Chile is now preparing to join the group. Chile has long been at the forefront of conservative arguments. But there is currently a strong majority in Chile that supports same-sex marriage. In recent years, the Chilean people are showing signs of shifting to left-wing progressive ideas on social and cultural issues.
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