Switzerland authorities will spend a national referendum in the country, following which it is planned to allow citizens to conclude same-sex marriages. About it reports Le Figaro.
According to the publication, these preliminary polls of the population have shown that most Swiss are expressed in support of the introduction of the “Marriage for All” system. According to the historian Thierry Delsessore (Thierry Delesert), studying homosexuality in Switzerland, this decision will be a big step forward for the country.
Affiliation to the LGBT community was decriminalized in Switzerland in 1942, but law enforcement agencies conducted special lists of homosexuals until the 1990s. Finding in such registers complicated the life of the country’s citizens. Thus, the representatives of LGBT were more likely to endure convictions, it was difficult for them to find work in state bodies or rent an apartment. To date, the situation has changed for the better.
July 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded from Russia to introduce a legal procedure for recognizing same-sex family relations and called the existing ban on unfair. The court decision claimed that it was not necessary to consider the Union of same-sex couples marriage, but it is necessary to equalize them in rights with differential pairs.