"Coexistence unions" () were eventually made legal nationwide on 1 August 2015 after the "Código Civil y Commercial", which replaced the former Civil Code, came into effect.An early 2007 poll showed that 75% of those surveyed in the city of Buenos Aires believed that gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry, whereas 66% of Argentinans supported same-sex marriage in 2009, if consideration was given to the whole country.