The Swiss voted in a referendum in favor of opening civil marriage and the right to adoption to same-sex couples, according to Swiss media.
The "yes" won with almost two-thirds of favorable votes, according to estimates published Sunday, September 25, shortly after the polls closed.
According to a first quantified estimate of the polling institute gfs.bern, 64% of the voters approved the "marriage for all".
The "yes" score exceeds the score predicted by the polls leading up to the election on an initiative mainly opposed by the populist party UDC, the country's largest party and certain religious groups.
This result, still provisional, can no longer be reversed.
The official results are expected on Sunday.
The text that was put to the vote provides that same-sex couples can marry and adopt an unrelated child.
Lesbian couples will also be able to use medically assisted procreation (PMA), until now reserved for heterosexual couples.
The defeat of the "no" camp and its shock campaign
The "no" camp had resumed colors with the approach of the ballot by leading a campaign strongly focused on the well-being of the child, his development and the importance in his eyes of the couple made up of a father and a father. 'a mother.
Shocking posters deplored the commodification of the child and affirmed that "marriage for all kills the father".
On one of them, you can see a crying baby, with an ear tag usually reserved for cattle, and this question: "Babies to order?".
On another, a huge zombie head, supposed to represent a deceased father, stares at passers-by.
A primary school in Valais even decided to cover it because it frightened children.
Homosexual couples can already enter into a civil pact in Switzerland, and on Sunday the cantons which opposed it seemed for the most part to have voted in favor of homosexual union, sixteen years later.
With AFP and Reuters
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