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The Thai Senate, the upper house of Thailand’s National Assembly, passed the Marriage Equality Bill on Tuesday (June 18), with a hundred and thirty senators voting in its favour, 18 abstaining, and only four voting against.
This puts Thailand on the verge of becoming the first country in Southeast Asia, and third in Asia after Nepal and Taiwan, to legalise same-sex marriage. The Bill now awaits the formal endorsement of Thai monarch King Rama X. This is expected to take place imminently.
The lower house of the National Assembly had nearly…