Following the French National Assembly, the House of Commons in the UK approved the bill of same-sex marriages. MPs supporting this initiative had a decisive superiority over their opponents – 400 against 175. Now the bill is to go through several more ballots.
The bill will be debated in special parliamentary committees and then it will have to be approved by the House of Lords, Reuters reports.
The specific thing about the voting in the Commons was that it was held according to the procedure when each MP expressed their own opinion, irrespective of the 'party line'. On the previous day, all three parliamentary parties openly announced that they would follow this principle. Earlier, a little over 100 MPs from the Conservative Party said that they were not going to support this initiative in favour of which their leader Prime Minister David Cameron had spoken repeatedly. However, their votes had no influence on the future of the bill which is actively supported by the majority of Liberal Democrats, who form the ruling coalition with Conservatives, and also the main part of oppositional Labour MPs.
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