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According to extrapolation, Switzerland is right for marriage for everyone

2021-09-28T09:18:13.377Z


Same-sex couples will also be allowed to marry in Switzerland in the future. According to an initial extrapolation, there was a clear majority in favor of the new regulation in the referendum.


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A protester with a "Yes, I want" sign at a Zurich Pride campaign on September 4th

Photo: Manuel Geisser / IMAGO

Switzerland too now allows marriage for everyone.

According to an initial projection by the survey institute gfs.bern half an hour after the polling stations closed, 64 percent voted for marriage for all.

With an error margin of three percent, it was clear that the result could no longer change significantly.

The government has yet to determine when the change in the law will come into force.

The background to the referendum is an initiative by opponents of same-sex marriage.

After the Swiss parliament decided in December to allow same-sex couples to marry, they collected enough signatures to get a referendum through.

In the polls before the referendum, however, there was always a clear majority in favor of the new regulation, which already exists in most Western European countries.

So far, homosexual couples in Switzerland have only had the option of registering their partnership.

In most Western European countries, marriage is already the law for everyone, in Germany it has been since 2017. The option is being used extensively: every 30th new marriage in Germany has been same-sex since then.

Tens of thousands of homosexual couples have married since the fall of 2017.

About two thirds of them were previously in a registered partnership.

With the bill, Switzerland also wants to open up adoption rights for homosexual couples and enable lesbian couples to donate sperm.

Both are currently prohibited.

In particular, sperm donation and the associated legal recognition of both women as mothers are controversial.

If the law is passed, Switzerland would be further than Germany, where the CDU and CSU prevent the legal recognition of both partners as mothers.

The parties argue with the rights of biological fathers, which they do not want to marginalize.

Löw / AFP

Source: spiegel

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