Same-sex marriage is now legal in 30 countries after almost two-thirds of voters in Switzerland give their approval to marriage equality. Swiss citizens went to the polls on Sunday to vote in a “marriage for all” referendum imposed by opponents of same-sex marriage.
According to the Federal office for Statistics, 64.1 per cent of those who participated voted in favour of allowing same-sex couples to marry.
Registered same-sex partnerships have been legal since 2007 but the Swiss federal legislature only passed a bill to legalise full marriage equality in December last year.
Critics of the laws, however, responded by collecting more than 61,000 signatures demanding a referendum on the matter. Under Swiss law, a referendum on parliamentary
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