Gabon’s two houses of parliament voted to decriminalize homosexuality, making it one of the few African countries to scrap the law.
Presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha said it the law passed ‘with a large majority of 59 votes’ with just 17 senators voting against and four abstained.
That’s an even bigger majority than the bill achieved in the National Assembly on 23 June.
Then 48 lawmakers voted to make gay sex legal, with 24 voting against and 25 abstentions.
Now the bill will go to President Ali Bongo Ondimba for his ratification and signature.
However, First Lady Sylvia Valentin Ondimba, supports decriminalization. She believes the ability to love freely is a fundamental human right.
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GHM News
