Chile Kast successfully overcomes the virtual interrogation of the "anti-system" party in Chile
Editorial Chile is heading towards total polarization
The accelerated political transformation of Chile in recent years
added a new milestone on Tuesday with the approval of the equal marriage law
, which allows people of the same sex to marry. The project, which was promoted in 2017 by the social democrat Michelle Bachelet in her last months as president and emphatically supported in 2021 by the center-right Sebastián Piñera, current head of state,
had broad support in Parliament.
After being approved in the Senate with 21 votes in favor, eight against and three abstentions, the law was quickly processed in the Chamber of Deputies, with 82 votes in favor, 20 against and two abstentions. Thus,
Chile follows the path of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador and Costa Rica
, among other Latin American countries that have already approved equal marriage laws.
"It cannot be that old prejudices are stronger than love," Bachelet said in 2017 when sending the rule to Congress. Four years later, Piñera took up the matter: "
Today I think that we must deepen the value of freedom
, including the freedom to love and form a family with the loved one." The center-rightist asked for the "immediate discussion" of the project, which at that time was stuck in Congress. Such a step, in a government coalition
that includes deeply conservative sectors
, generated tensions in the government. Most of the votes against the law came from those sectors.
"Today is a happy day for Chile, because you know, love is love. People are equal and being equal we also have the same rights," celebrated Jaime Belollio, Secretary General of the Piñera government. "This is a way in which these families and their different expressions are protected and that sexual orientation or the identification of a person is never
a way that others use to discriminate, cancel or make hate speech
. We advance in the recognition, in respecting and embracing diversity. "
Chile is immersed in a period of high political effervescence since in October 2019 a social insurrection changed the history of the country.
A Constituent Convention is currently in session to write a new Constitution, while the hard left, embodied in Gabnriel Boric, and the hard right of José Antonio Kast will contest the presidency on the 19th of this month.
Kast has already announced that, although he personally believes that marriage is between a man and a woman, he will
not try to reverse the law if he arrives at the Palacio de La Moneda.
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