MEXICO CITY — Lawmakers within the border state of Tamaulipas voted Wednesday evening to legalize same-sex marriages, changing into the final of Mexico’s 32 states to authorize such unions.
The measure to amend the state’s Civil Code handed with 23 votes in favor, 12 towards and two abstentions, setting off cheers of “Sure, we are able to!” from supporters of the change.
The session happened as teams each for and towards the measure chanted and shouted from the balcony, and legislators finally moved to a different room to complete their debate and vote.
The president of the Supreme Court docket of Justice of the Nation, Arturo Zaldívar, welcomed the vote. “The entire nation shines with an enormous rainbow. Stay the dignity and rights of all folks. Love is love,” he mentioned on Twitter.
A day earlier, lawmakers within the southern state of Guerrero authorized comparable laws permitting same-sex marriages.
In 2015, the Supreme Court docket declared state legal guidelines stopping same-sex marriage unconstitutional, however some states took a number of years to undertake legal guidelines conforming with the ruling.
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