Cuba approves homosexual marriage in a consultation with a high abstention

Cuba has said

to

, a broad legal reform that includes same-sex marriage and surrogacy, in a referendum with historical numbers of votes against and abstentions.

The results, released this Monday, are bittersweet for the

, which has seen how the option for which it relentlessly advocated in the weeks prior to the consultation triumphed, but with a much higher rate of disagreement (abstention and vote against) to that of the previous referendums on the island.

The

obtained 66.87% of the votes cast, for the 33.13% that the

added .

Abstention rose to 26%, according to the

(CEN) with preliminary results of the referendum organized the day before.

Of a census of 8,447,467 people over 16 years of age and with the right to vote, 3,936,790 were in favor (46.6% of the total census), while 1,950,090 voted against (23.1%). ).

In addition, 2,195,681 abstained (26%) and 364,906 invalid ballots (4.3%) were counted.

In comparison, in the

of 2019 the participation was 84.4% and the favorable vote of 87%, and in the constitutional consultation of 1976 the participation exceeded 99% and the yes reached 98%, according to official data.

"VICTORY OF SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTION"

For his part, the president of Cuba,

, described the results as "one more victory for socialist construction" and recognized the headwind both due to "discrepancies with the content" and for political and economic reasons.

"With the approval of that code, today we have

. It was a vote for Cuba, it was a yes for Cuba, it was a yes for the Revolution," assured the president, according to the official newspaper Granma.

Díaz-Canel stressed that the victory of the

was achieved "despite a context of difficult economic and social, energy, migratory movements," in addition to the "understandable discrepancies in some of the issues that, due to the magnitude of the code, were addressed".

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