Marriage of same-sex couples / 20 ND MPs did not vote and 31 abstained – The “x-ray” of the vote

Equality in marriage regardless of gender is the law of the state as the bill for the marriage of same-sex couples was voted by a large majority in the Plenary of the Parliament. 254 MPs took part in the vote, 176 voted yes, 76 against, 2 were present.

From the ND, 107 voted in favor, 20 voted against and 31 abstained. Specifically, they voted against:

A. Samaras, C. Athanasiou, F. Arabatzi, V. Yogiakas, St. Gikas, G. Giulekas, T. Davakis, A. Dimoshakis, K. Karagounis, A. Karamanlis, T. Karaoglou, A. Katsaniotis, D. Kyriazidis, F. Baraliakos, M. Salmas, G. Paschalidis, E. Stylianidis, M. Charakopoulos, M. Chrysomallis, T. Leontaridis.

The 31 her SW where they were away:

Dionysis Aktypis, Yiannis Andrianos, Lakis Vassiliadis, Kostas Vlasis, George Vlachos, Makis Voridis, George Georgandas, John Yiatsios, Andreas Zampilis, Thanasis Kavvadas, John Kallianos, Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, Markos Kafouros, Stavros Keletsis, Maria Kefala, Manos Konsolas, George of Kotronia .

In relation to him SYRIZAPavlos Polakis and Othonas Iliopoulos were absent, while Nina Kasimati voted “present”.

From PASOK abstained from voting 11 MPs.

Specifically:

Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, Evangelia Liakoulis, Stavros Michaelidis, Burhan Baran, Stavros Nikolaidis, Apostolos Panas, Panagiotis Paraskevaidis, Andreas Poulas, Christina Starakas, Manolis Chnaris, Katerina Kazanis

From the New Left the two minority MPs, Özgür Ferhat and Hüseyin Zeybek, were absent. The second “present» belongs to the independent MP, Michalis Hourdakis.

From ministers were absent: Voridis, Keletsis, Kefala and Bougas.

“Goal achieved. Let’s move on” said Kyriakos Mitsotakis after the vote, while when asked by journalists about the attitude of Antonis Samaras he said confusedly: “After we said that everyone has their opinion”.