Cuba votes to legalise same-sex marriage in historic national referendum
Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage and give gay couples the right to adopt children in a historic national referendum.
Roughly two-thirds of the population voted to approve the reforms in a sweeping “family law” code which will also see rights for children and grandparents redefined and surrogate pregnancies allowed.
Although a few places are yet to be counted, the president of the National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, told local outlets that the changes had been approved by a vote of 66.9% to 33.1%.
It comes after the government ran a nationwide campaign urging the public to support the law change. “Most of our people will vote in favour of the code, but it still has issues that our society as a whole does not understand,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel as he voted on 25 September.
