The Congress of the Mexican state of Guerrero approved on Tuesday equal marriage, thus becoming the thirty-first state in the country to approve same-sex marriages.
With 38 votes in favor, six against and two abstentions, the Parliament of the state of Guerrero has taken forward a proposal submitted by deputies of Morena, the political organization of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
«The Plenary of the LXIII Legislature approved reforms to the Civil Code, the Civil Procedure Code and the Civil Registry Law, all of the state of Guerrero, to recognize marriage and cohabitation of all persons over 18 years of age, without any discrimination,» the Congress of Guerrero has detailed in a statement.
The parliamentarians have voted confidentially by depositing their vote in a ballot box, although the deputy of the conservative Institutional Revolutionary Party, Julieta Fernandez, has publicly stated her vote against, reported ‘El Sol de Mexico’.
With this decision, the vast majority of Mexican states allow equal marriage, in the absence of the state of Tamaulipas, for the right of homosexual couples to be legal throughout Mexico.
