Recognition Of Same-sex Unions In Spain
Same-sex marriage in Spain has been legal since July 3, 2005. In 2004, the nation's newly elected First government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, government, led by Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Socialist Workers' Party, began a campaign to legalize same-sex marriage, including the right of LGBT adoption, adoption by same-sex couples. After much debate, a law permitting same-sex marriage was passed by the Cortes Generales (the Spanish Parliament, composed of the Senate of Spain, Senate and the Congress of Deputies (Spain), Congress of Deputies) by a vote of 187–147 on June 30, 2005, and published on July 2. The law took effect the next day, making Spain the third country in the world to allow same-sex couples to marry on a national level, after the Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands, Netherlands and Same-sex marriage in Belgium, Belgium, and 17 days ahead of the right being extended across a ...
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First Government Of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The first government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was formed on 18 August 2004, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of Deputies on 16 August and his swearing-in on 17 August, as a result of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 2004 Spanish general election. It succeeded the second Aznar government and was the Government of Spain from 18 August 2004 to 14 April 2008, a total of days, or . The cabinet comprised members of the PSOE (including its sister party, the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, PSC) and a number of independents. It was automatically dismissed on 10 March 2008 as a consequence of the 2008 general election, but remained in acting capacity until the next government was sworn in. Investiture Cabinet changes Zapatero's first government saw a number of cabinet changes during its tenure: *On 7 April 2006, José Bono's stepping down as Minister of Defence out of pers ...
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