With a broad majority, but also several cross-party differences the bill for the civil marriage of same-sex couples was passed on Thursday night in the Plenary Session of the Parliament.
The draft law restoring equality between heterosexual and same-sex couples in civil marriage was supported by the Parliamentary Groups of New Democracy, SYRIZA, PASOK, New Left and Freedom Movement, while KKE, Spartans, Hellenic Solution and Victory voted once morest. . 176 voted yes, 76 no, 2 present, while there were 46 abstentions.
Concerning the New Democracy the aggregated results of the vote are as follows:
The 20 “no’s” of the ND
1. Charalambos Athanasiou
2. Fotini Arabatzi
3. Vassilis Yogiakas
4. Stefanos Gikas
5. Konstantinos Giulekas
6. Thanasis Davakis
7. Tasos Dimoshakis
8. Kostas Karagounis
9. Anna Karamanlis
10. Theodoros Karaoglou
11. Andreas Katsaniotis
12. Dimitris Kyriazidis
13. Theofilos Leontaridis
14. Xenophon Baraliakos
15. Yiannis Paschalidis
16. Marios Salmas
17. Antonis Samaras
18. Euripides Stylianides
19. Maximos Charakopoulos
20. Miltos Chrysomallis
The 31 abstinences of the ND
1. Dionysis Aktypis
2. Giannis Andrianos
3. Lakis Vasiliadis
4. Kostas Vlasis
5. George Vlachos
6. Makis Voridis
7. George Georgantas
8. Yiannis Yatsios
9. Andreas Zambilis
10. Thanasis Kavvadas
11. Giannis Kallianos
12. Dimitris Kalogeropoulos
13. Markos Kafouros
14. Stavros Keletsis
15. Maria Kefala
16. Manos Konsolas
17. George Kotronias
18. Dimitris Kouvelas
19. Spyros Kulkudinas
20. Yiannis Lampropoulos
21. Pericles Mantas
22. Notis Mitarakis
23. Katerina Monogyou
24. Giannis Bougas
25. Christos Boukoros
26. Giannis Oikonomou
27. George Papasotiriou
28. Stelios Petsas
29. Thanos Pleuris
30. Christodoulos Stefanadis
31. Angelos Syrigos
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