Spain is set to become the sixth country in the world to legalise euthanasia.

It is expected that the law will be approved in the first quarter of 2021, despite unanimous opposition from the members of an agency of the Ministry of Health, Social Care and Equality, who declared that “solid health, ethical, legal, economic and social reasons” existed to reject euthanasia and assisted suicide.

A report presented by the Socialist Party’s Justice Committee, which outlines the law, has been approved with 22 votes in favour, although it was opposed by the Partido Popular and Vox, who already presented amendments which were rejected in the Congress of Deputies.

The proposal may be approved as soon as January. It would allow people to be euthanized in their own homes and not only at health centres.