The French National Assembly has approved the most important article of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage.
Deputies voted 249-97 in favour of redefining marriage as being an agreement between two people – not just between a man and a woman.
President Francois Hollande’s Socialists and their left-wing supporters backed it, opposed by the opposition UMP and many centrist MPs.
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