A Chilean senator (Fulvio Rossi), the head of Chile's Socialist party, is planning to present a proposal to legalize gay marriage in Chile.

Lately the neighboring Argentina approved a bill that legalizes gay marriage and gay adoptions. Chilean politicians are already considering the Acuerdo de Vida en Comun (AVC), which would act as a civil union available to both heterosexual and homosexual couples. In fact Sebastian Pinera, Chile's first conservative president in two decades, has voted to guarantee more rights to same-sex couples, but opposes gay marriage.