With four votes in favor and five against, the Constitutional Court (TC) rejected a request for inapplicability filed by a Chilean-Spanish lesbian couple .

The couple married in the municipality of Navàs, in Barcelona, in March 2012. When they wanted to register their marriage in Chile, the Civil Registry rejected it and registered it as a Civil Union Agreement . At that time they were expecting a child.

According to El Mercurio slogan , the request requested to declare unconstitutional the final subsection of article 12 of law No. 20,830, which creates the Civil Union Agreement, and which stipulates that “ marriages celebrated abroad by persons of the same sex will be recognized in Chile as civil union agreements if they comply with the rules established in this law ”.

At the same time, they were seeking to reject the first paragraph of article 80 of Law No. 19,947, which establishes a new civil marriage law "whenever it is a question of the union between a man and a woman . "

The five judges who were to reject the request argued that the cited articles are constitutional, since international law condemns not giving a solution to people of the same sex, and according to the magistrates, that would be resolved under current Chilean legislation . Read more via CNN