Same-sex marriage in Belgium 14 December and published on 23 December 1999 made the Act of statutory cohabitation go into effect on 1 January 2000. During 1999, the PS (French-speaking Social Democrats) and Ecolo (French-speaking Greens) also announced they agreed to legalise same-sex marriage. At that point, the only remaining party in Government that opposed same-sex marriage was the French-speaking liberal PRL (later merged into MR), mainly because it was opposed to adoption rights for same-sex couples. PRL agreed not to block same-sex marriage if adoption rights are excluded. As the first same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was performed on 1 April 2001, the
Same-sex marriage in Chiapas In addition, it also standardized the concept of cohabitation, disregarding a person's sexual preference. A new same-sex marriage bill was presented to the Chiapan Congress in May 2016. According to Unidos Diferentes Asociación Civil (UDAC), a local LGBT advocacy group, the same-sex marriage bill was taken off the agenda several times and not voted upon due to the actions of the president of the local Congress, Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar. Additionally, UDAC has said that the bill does not address the issue of adoption for same-sex couples. On 25 September 2014, a collective amparo (injunction) for the legalization of same-sex marriage