The projection published by GFS Bern polling and research group found that 62 percent had voted in favour of the reform, with a margin of error of three percent.
The new law will widen existing legislation against discrimination or incitement to hatred on ethnic or religious grounds to include sexual orientation. “This is a historic day,” Mathias Reynard, a lawmaker from the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland who initiated the reform, told Swiss channel RTS 1. “It gives a signal which is