France’s National Assembly has voted in favor of a bill approving gay marriage, after 10 days of intense debate. The proposal, an election promise from President Francois Hollande, must also clear the Senate.
Politicians in Paris on Tuesday approved a new law allowing homosexual couples to marry. The National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament, approved the bill at a vote by a tally of 329 to 229, with nine absentees and 10 abstentions.
Allowing gay couples to marry was one of the campaign pledges from Socialist President Francois Hollande in last year’s election.
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