Switzerland Votes Convincingly to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
- Much of Western Europe has already approved LGBT marriage
- Left’s plan to raise tax on capital gets defeated, as expected
An electoral poster reading: "Yes I want it" in Lausanne.
Photographer: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
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Swiss voters voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, 20 years after the Netherlands became the first country to do so. A separate proposal for a tax hike was rejected easily.
Some 64% of voters backed liberalization of the marriage law; polls had signaled that public support for the change was broad based.