Romanians will vote on the constitutional prohibition of same-sex marriage.
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Romanians will vote on the constitutional prohibition of same-sex marriage.
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Romanians will vote on the constitutional prohibition of same-sex marriage.
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanians will vote over the weekend on whether they should enshrine in their constitution that marriage should only be between a man and a woman in a referendum that has seen activists direct insults against LGBT people and that activists they say they are open to fraud.
PHOTO OF ARCHIVE: A woman passes by a painter who reads: "October 6-7 Go out and vote", sprayed next to a cross symbol in Bucharest, Romania, October 1, 2018. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea through of REUTERS
The conservative state of Eastern Europe no longer allows marriages or civil associations for same-sex couples, nor does it recognize those carried out abroad.
In any case, Romanians will vote on whether to restrict the marriage's constitutional definition of a "spouse" union on the initiative of a civil society group called the Coalition for the Family, which said that the neutral gender term could make Homosexual couples win the right. to get married in the future.
Voting needs a participation rate of 30 percent, or more than 5 million people, to be valid.
Dozens of human rights groups, which are encouraging people to boycott the ballot, have warned that the approval would imply new attempts to undermine the rights of minority groups and push the EU state to an authoritarian and populist path.
Days before the vote, the government relaxed anti-fraud monitoring and limited options to contest the outcome in contrast to the regular elections, while the country's transmission regulator eliminated a deadline for the campaign.
"There are no ... efficient and applicable mechanisms to verify fraud in this referendum," said the Forum of Experts of Independent Experts (EFOR), adding that the conditions have created "a climate of distrust in the impartiality of the process."
The vote is supported by the Orthodox Church and other religions and won the support of all but one political party in parliament.
Some posters and campaign ads urged people to vote "Yes" to defend family values or risk homosexual couples stealing or adopting their children. An announcement said that a "No" vote would allow a man to marry a tree.
"Many fear that what has happened in other countries, such as the legalization of marriage between a man and an animal, could happen here," said the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, to the private television network Romania TV .
Romania decriminalized homosexuality in 2001, decades after neighboring countries. It ranks 25th among the 28 EU states according to legislation, hate speech and discrimination against LGBT people, according to an annual study by ILGA-Europa, an umbrella organization that advocates for equality.
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