国家的レヴェルでの合法化へ(墨西哥)

Nicky Woolf “Mexico's president calls for nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/17/mexico-same-sex-marriage-legal-president


5月17日、墨西哥のEnrique Peña Nieto大統領は、「結婚における平等(marriage equality)」を憲法及び民法典に書き込むことを提案する発議に署名したと宣言した。これによって、墨西哥では同性婚姻が国家レヴェルで合法化されることになる。
現在墨西哥において、同性婚姻は一部の地方において合法化されている。最高裁判所は合法化を支持しているものの、憲法に書き込まれない以上、地方レヴェルでの禁止を禁止することはできないということになる;


Same-sex marriage has been legal in some parts of Mexico for some time; it was legalized first by ordinance in Mexico City – the first Latin American jurisdiction to do so – and the law was then upheld by the supreme court in August 2010.

In 2011, the first same-sex marriages occurred in the state of Quintana Roo after it was discovered that the state’s legal code did not explicitly forbid it. Those were annulled by the governor in April 2012, but that annulment was overturned almost immediately by Quintana Roo’s secretary of state.

Currently, only three of Mexico’s 31 states – Campeche, Coahuila and Nayarit – plus Mexico City have passed laws enacting marriage equality, and four more have de facto marriage equality by either gubernatorial decree, as in the case of Chihuahua, or decisions by the secretary of state or director of civil registry.

In 2015, the country’s supreme court published a ruling which said that defining marriage as only between a man and a woman was discriminatory, which was a kind of de facto legalization.

But this judicial ruling did not invalidate state bans – same-sex marriage is still banned by the province of Yucatán, for example – meaning couples that want to marry in states where it is still illegal can do so, but only after obtaining a court injunction.

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