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Chilean lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to approve marriage equality this week, a vote that would make Chile the latest Latin American country to recognize same-sex marriage, NPR reported.
Both houses of parliament approved the draft legislation, which was first introduced in 2017 by then-President Michelle Bachelet. Current President Sebastián Piñera had initially opposed the legislation.
But in June, he changed his stance, announcing that “the time has come for marriage equality in our country.” He is expected to sign the bill into law before he leaves office in March.
Chile’s current laws allow gay couples to unite under a Civil Union Pact, which gives them most of the same rights as married couples but denies them the right to adopt.
The new legislation will extend parental rights to gay parents and expand spousal benefits and adoption rights for married same-sex couples.
The law makes Chile the eighth Latin American country to allow same-sex marriage, as well as the 31st worldwide.
The parliamentary approval came less than two weeks before a contentious presidential run-off that will pit far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast against Gabriel Boric, a leftist former student leader.
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