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A man arrives to cast his ballot at a polling station in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 20 December 2015, during a referendum to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage. EPA/BGNES
Slovenians have rejected by a large margin a bill giving same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children in a referendum held on Sunday, STA reported.
According to preliminary results, 63.5% voted against a bill that defined marriage as a union of two consenting adults while 36.5% voted for it, the AP said. Conservatives were particularly opposed to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.
Slovenia's Parliament approved a bill in March that allowed same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, but a Catholic Church-backed movement called Children Are at Stake appealed to the country's top court calling for a referendum. Under Slovenia's Constitution, opponents needed to convince a majority to say "No."
Required turnout is 20% of all eligible voters for the result to be binding.
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