On November 23, Chile's Chamber of Deputies approved the \"equal marriage\" bill, which would allow same-sex couples to enter into this type of civil union on equal terms with heterosexual couples. The Senate had already approved it last July. It should be promulgated by the President of the Republic within 90 days. Various political and Christian sectors have criticized President Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era for having given urgency to this project, which was not included in his government program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A week later, on November 30, the same Chamber rejected the bill for free abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy. With this result, the same bill cannot be reintroduced within a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On November 16, presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the country. A total of 47.3 % of Chileans over 18 years of age voted. Five candidates competed. First place went to the right-wing candidate Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast (27.9 %), second place to Gabriel Boric representing the extreme left and supported by the communists (25.8 %); the big surprise came from Franco Parisi of the People's Party (12.8 %) who had not been in the country in recent months; Sebasti\u00e1n Sichel of the liberal right obtained 12.8 %; he was followed by Yasna Provoste (11.6 %) of the Christian Democracy, a center-left party, and two other candidates with lower votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The presidential runoff will be held on December 19. Kast (55 years old), leader of the Republican Party, supported by center-right parties, is strongly pro-life and a defender of heterosexual marriage. Boric (35 years old), representative of the Frente Amplio, supported by left and extreme left parties, although he is in favor of free abortion, was absent on the day of the vote in Parliament; he voted in favor of homosexual \"marriage\". There is great uncertainty about the outcome of the ballot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El 23 de noviembre la C\u00e1mara de Diputados de Chile aprob\u00f3 el proyecto de ley de \u201cmatrimonio igualitario\u201d, que permitir\u00eda a parejas del mismo sexo acceder a este tipo de uni\u00f3n civil en igualdad de condiciones con las parejas heterosexuales. El Senado ya lo hab\u00eda aprobado en julio pasado. Deber\u00eda ser promulgado por el Presidente […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":17340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,37],"tags":[538,599],"class_list":["post-17337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-america-latina","tag-america","tag-familia"],"yoast_head":"\n