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(ANSA) – SYDNEY, OCTOBER 20 – Following last Saturday’s elections, which confirmed the government led by the popular Labor leader Jacinda Ardern with a large majority, New Zealand can boast of having the largest number of LGBTIQ + parliamentarians in the world, going from 7 to 12 in the room of 120, with 10% of MPs openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Of these, 8 were elected to the Labor Party and 4 to the Greens. This gives the country the largest rainbow representation in the world, surpassing the UK, which has a ratio of 7%.
New Zealand, the first country in the world in 1893 to recognize the right to vote for women, recognized in 2005 civil unions between same-sex couples and in 2013 legalized homosexual marriage. (HANDLE).
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