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After six years of discussions, the local Congress of the City of Mexico, Distrito Federal (the "Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal, ALDF, Congreso local") voted a law allowing homosexual partnerships, on Thursday 9 November. This was possible despite the opposition of the Church and of the conservative parties. Although it seems that Mr Lopez Obrador (who lost the recent presidential elections) had previously vetoed this law (which proves that he is rather conservative after all). This is an important date, in a country where abortion is not yet legal. The "ombudsman" of the City of Mexico, Emilio Alvarez Icaza, assured that this new law was "a big step towards more democracy and an advance in the defence of human rights". The leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, leftwing) in the Federal District, Martí Batres, qualified as very positive the approval of the law, which had an historical importance, because "it could now be a reference for a national debate".
The text, baptised as "ley de sociedades de convivencia" (something like law of coexistence partnerships) does not yet allow to adopt a child and concerns only Mexico City. It got 43 votes (5 abstentions and 17 votes against). Only the members of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN, catholic rightwing) of President Vicente Fox and of elected President Felipe Calderon opposed the draft law. The ruling stops short of enabling gay couples to get married and will only apply to the estimated nine million inhabitants of Mexico City. Now it will have to be promulgated by the Mayor of Mexico City, Alejandro Encinas, who has already declared to be in favour. Under the law, Mexico City's gay couples who register their union with civil authorities will gain access to inheritance and pension rights. Unmarried heterosexual couples can also register under the same law. A similar bill is being debated by lawmakers in Mexico's northern state of Coahuila, bordering Texas. The text resembles the French PACS (civil solidarity pact) or the Civil Union Contract existing in Portugal.
While the elected representatives of the City of Mexico examined the text of the law and discussed modifications to be made to the text, the partisans and opponents to the law expressed noisily in front of the city's assembly. The police established a security corridor to separate both groups. On one side, young people and catholic mothers held up small posters saying "No to the homosexual law". "You are afraid to assume your homosexuality", replied those in favour of the law, on the other side, waving the rainbow flags.
Mexico City becomes the second place in Latin-America where gay partnerships become legal (after the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina). But while Mexico takes a step forward towards improved human rights and democracy, the US takes a step backwards… On the same day that the democrats had a smashing victory over the republican party in last Tuesday's US mid-term elections for the Congress, seven US states were voting laws banning gay marriage! Arizona voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have banned domestic partnership laws as well as gay marriage (Arizona already had an ordinary law banning gay marriage, which remains in force). It became the first state to reject such an amendment. Seven other states approved constitutional amendments banning gay marriage on the same day. Read further in the previous post.
The text, baptised as "ley de sociedades de convivencia" (something like law of coexistence partnerships) does not yet allow to adopt a child and concerns only Mexico City. It got 43 votes (5 abstentions and 17 votes against). Only the members of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN, catholic rightwing) of President Vicente Fox and of elected President Felipe Calderon opposed the draft law. The ruling stops short of enabling gay couples to get married and will only apply to the estimated nine million inhabitants of Mexico City. Now it will have to be promulgated by the Mayor of Mexico City, Alejandro Encinas, who has already declared to be in favour. Under the law, Mexico City's gay couples who register their union with civil authorities will gain access to inheritance and pension rights. Unmarried heterosexual couples can also register under the same law. A similar bill is being debated by lawmakers in Mexico's northern state of Coahuila, bordering Texas. The text resembles the French PACS (civil solidarity pact) or the Civil Union Contract existing in Portugal.
While the elected representatives of the City of Mexico examined the text of the law and discussed modifications to be made to the text, the partisans and opponents to the law expressed noisily in front of the city's assembly. The police established a security corridor to separate both groups. On one side, young people and catholic mothers held up small posters saying "No to the homosexual law". "You are afraid to assume your homosexuality", replied those in favour of the law, on the other side, waving the rainbow flags.
Mexico City becomes the second place in Latin-America where gay partnerships become legal (after the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina). But while Mexico takes a step forward towards improved human rights and democracy, the US takes a step backwards… On the same day that the democrats had a smashing victory over the republican party in last Tuesday's US mid-term elections for the Congress, seven US states were voting laws banning gay marriage! Arizona voters rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have banned domestic partnership laws as well as gay marriage (Arizona already had an ordinary law banning gay marriage, which remains in force). It became the first state to reject such an amendment. Seven other states approved constitutional amendments banning gay marriage on the same day. Read further in the previous post.
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