Parliament and government had already decided on the change in the law, but opponents forced a vote on it by collecting signatures. They only want to accept marriage as a connection between a man and a woman. During the referendum campaign, they created mood with emotional images of crying children who, in their opinion, suffer in such rainbow families. You are particularly against the grain that these couples are allowed to adopt children if they are adopted. By going to the registry office, homosexual couples also have the right to naturalize their partner in a simplified procedure. In addition, lesbian couples have legal access to the semen database.
There was also a vote on an initiative by the Young Socialists who wanted to ask the richest in the country to pay more for capital taxation. According to the forecast, this initiative was rejected. The popular initiative “Relieve wages, tax capital fairly (99 percent initiative)” wanted to tax the richest percent more heavily in favor of the 99 percent who are not among the richest. One percent of the Swiss population has around 42 percent of all assets in Switzerland.
