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Cubans voting on a landmark liberalisation of family code

By AFP
September 26, 2022

Havana: Cubans went to the polls on Sunday to vote in a landmark referendum on whether to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption, allow surrogate pregnancies and give greater rights to non-biological parents. President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife cast their ballots early at a Havana polling station in what he said is a needed revision of the country’s 1975 Family Code.